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There is more evil in one second of the history of the Roman Catholic Church than there is in the entire lifetime of Scientology.

— Alexander Cockburn

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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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