Content tagged enemies

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“In defence of M. Night Shyamalan”—though this is a “defence” of the “with friends like these, who needs enemies?” variety. (Similar piece … gulfstream/2122

Quotes Collected

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment … quotes/252

On the Chatham Islands, 500 miles east of New Zealand, centuries of independence came to a brutal end for the Moriori people in December 1835. On November … quotes/176

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or … quotes/138

Why did Western Europeans come to dominate the world? Historian Paul M. Kennedy, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), says western Europe … quotes/130