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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

George William Curtis

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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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