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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis o

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. – Terry Eagleton

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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – Terry Eagleton

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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – George Santayana

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We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. – Havelock Ellis

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I think Im just someone that just tries to get by. Im kind of – if it was during the Second World War, Id be a black marketeer, I think. – Craig Ferguson

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed? – John Milton

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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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