Quote by Carroll Quigley
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. – Carroll Quigley

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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. – Carroll Quigley

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. – Carroll Quigley

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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. – Carroll Quigley

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After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. – Kurt Student

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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? – Daisaku Ikeda

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I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. – Corey Hart

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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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