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Remember, only two creatures have wings in the Bible: birds and demons," I point

In April 1983

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

Stengel admitted. "I'm not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you'll know as well as I." The next afternoon, Casey resisted

At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers' wives with the words: 'My, what pretty widows you're going to make.

It is no disparagement of Winston's extraordinary qualities to say that his judgement is not quite equal to his abilities

I admire his brains and mental capacity but I decry his judgement

because a native-born American was 'a very effeminate thing, very unfit for and very impatient of war'.

and said that these councils were only ever resorted to as 'a cowardly proceeding' intended to distribute blame.

Churchill's prescience about Communism had mirrored what he had said about Nazism, but this time he was able to halt the appeasement that might otherwise have once again become the West's default mechanism.

Winston, who executed a tour-de-force, a brilliant bit of acting and exposition

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience it.

To reduce the desperately difficult moral decisions that Churchill and many others had to take to the level of accusations of deliberate genocide is biased and unhistorical.

On Liberty, 'that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

Nothing short of military defeat demoralizes a country so totally as hyper-inflation, and the Directory

I didn't want, "Healing magic didn't seem like a priority," to be my final words.

For the future, please promise me you will not make any life-altering oaths in order to influence my love life.

Jin smirked. "Why? There's nothing else that interests me here." Do not be charmed. He is not charming. There is no charming happening here. None.

Sincerely, Mysterious Book Entity Aww, it still liked that name.

No problem. Get some sleep." "You, too." He shook his head. "Not just yet for me." Keras cracked his neck. "I'm still wearing my trouble coat, and I never got to use it.

Of course, I hadn't anticipated a firearm being discharged — how novel! — and the guards already did investigate the scene." She gave me a pointed look.

I heard about that. I don't approve of Orden's antics, but she is funny, at least. That's better than I can say for most of our staff.

we were both content to spend the trip in awkward silence, which was vastly preferable to awkward conversation. ***

Is...Teft complimenting us? Wait, no, I'm not part of the group that is going. Everything makes sense again.