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Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'. ↗


— Rupert Sanders


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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗


— George Santayana


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In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. ↗


— Edward Sapir


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A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. ↗


— George Savile


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But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties. ↗


— Hjalmar Schacht


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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. ↗


— Arthur Scargill


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Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. ↗


— Arthur Scargill


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Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany. ↗


— Hjalmar Schacht


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Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. ↗


— Hjalmar Schacht


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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. ↗


— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


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