Wednesday, 31 August 2016

No ball bearings, no war

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It's terrible to say," Speer said pensively, "but it's better that they're concentrating on the cities." - "...
Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Necessity, as the Greeks knew already, is not only a blind goddess, but a cruel one too.

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There was a lot of talk,after the war, in trying to explain what had happened, about inhumanity. But I am sorry, there is no such thing as ...
Monday, 29 August 2016

We lost land, cities, men; all that can be replaced. But the Party didn't collapse

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"We'll fight  to the last man." - "No doubt, but you'll perish all the same. And Stalingrad will remain as the symbol...
Tuesday, 9 August 2016

The custom of drinking a little glass of rich wine with a sweet dish or fruit seems to me a civilized one

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The custom of drinking a little glass of rich wine with a sweet dish or fruit seems to me a civilized one, and especially welcome to those ...
Monday, 8 August 2016

Large tracts of town property [are] more than Norman blood

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Ancestry has never counted for much in England. The English lord knows himself to be such a very genuine article that, when looking for a wi...
Wednesday, 8 June 2016

They were refugees. We know them as "the peril from the East."

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They were refugees. We know them as "the peril from the East." Fear of pogroms has welded them together like a landslip of unhapp...
Monday, 18 April 2016

President and sole member, he said, of some seventeen undergraduate social and literary societies

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[Thomas] Earp had set himself the task of keeping the Oxford tradition alive through the dead years - as president and sole member, he said...