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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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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

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Poetry
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Its high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbells soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. – Camille Paglia

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Because of my own familys service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. – Camille Paglia

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I dont know how much history young women today know about those battles. – Sandra Day OConnor

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When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling Stop! – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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