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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

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759 I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
827 The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
858 The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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827 Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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