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If you want to study the social and political history of modern na

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton

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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour its probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. – P. J. ORourke

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Im not giving up my history and what Ive done in my music because I love it and Im very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. – LL Cool J

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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyces view of Everyman as victim. – Robert Anton Wilson

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My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. – David Soul

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It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. – Alexandre Dumas, fils

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill

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In the morning, I reach for the sports page. – Lisa Guerrero

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As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesnt matter if its Chinese, Japanese, anything. – Martin Yan

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