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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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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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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. – Terry Eagleton

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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative. – Golda Meir

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Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg

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It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. Its not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy. – Rush Limbaugh

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If Scotland and America go to war, Im afraid Ive already sworn in. – Craig Ferguson

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Freedom begins between the ears. – Edward Abbey

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