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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
"It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war."
"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."
"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress."
"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."
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