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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one."
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"They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing."
Dogs

"I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen."
Music

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."
Events

"I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe."
Europe

"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."
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"Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung."
Being

"I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music."
Music

"I don't need a man in my life."
Life

"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."
Church

"I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time."
Time
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