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— Kenneth Clark"All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war."
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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.
— John B. S. Haldane
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