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Understanding,' in all honesty, is a word pregnant with difficulties, but also with hope.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

His history will henceforth be known as I craft it. Is this not the manner in which all history is recorded? It is written, and it is so.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

Your level of education. Oh, crap! A lie for a lie, let's say PhD . . . No, I'll just end up with a bunch of boring nerds.

That isn't exactly what I said. It's kind of like Stockholm syndrome. She thinks she's so worthless that she feels grateful for the love he gives her.

Criminal violence is the largest percentage of so-called self-defense cases lawyers will handle.

A very good summation is: Self-defense is when you have no other good option. Fighting is when you're part of the problem. If the cop decides and the prosecutor can sell that you were involved in the creation of circumstances that led to violence, you're screwed – especially if they're right.

I consider logic to be like a roundhouse kick: limited in use and effectiveness, predictable, easy to defend against, and just generally tired from being overused.

Here's a hint about multiple attackers, the guy talking is usually the distraction.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

That's the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.

Only a few got to indulge in the pretence that they were part of a Roman elite.

Only at the end of the eleventh century was it reported that the king had died of supernatural causes,

in reality Oswald must have been no less ruthless and bloodthirsty than any other bretwalda.

The monk went on to become Pope Gregory the Great,

Two were works of Gregory the Great,

The works of other eighth-century chroniclers are pitifully thin compared to those written by Bede,

Bede, who would doubtless have furnished us with a detailed explanation of such a massive engineering project,

died in 735, a generation before Offa's accession.

The largest and most important was St Peter's, the great basilica built by Constantine the Great

taking the rest with them back to London, along with their plunder and prisoners.

The most pious King Æthelstan' is how he was described on the first page of the gospel book

there seems to be no good reason to doubt that Alfred could have done at least some translating,