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Quote by William Halsey
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances

There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. – William Halsey

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. – John Perkins

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From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history. – Marco Rubio

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it. – Otto von Bismarck

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