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Quote by Camille Paglia
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why?

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. – Camille Paglia

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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. – Camille Paglia

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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. – Camille Paglia

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. – Camille Paglia

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. – John Podhoretz

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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