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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted h

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. – Steven Spielberg

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