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	For the love of the Lord God, give us a pair of slave women as alms, because we are spending the pittance we have entirely on hired girls. --An abbess to the queen of Portugal, 1500s

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	Antique is just another word for second-hand.

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	During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were "just going down to the corner."

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	Henry Kissinger once asked Chou En-Lai to theorize on what might have happened if Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F. Kennedy. After a moments thought, he answered: "I don't believe Mr. Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev."

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	The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of the Holocaust

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it 
by killing all those who opposed them.

Antiques are things one generation buys, the next
generation gets rid off, and the following generation
buys again.

"In Russia we only had two TV channels.
Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two
consisted of a KGB officer telling you:
Turn back at once to Channel One." 

Yakov Smirnoff. 

"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution
wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid." 

Denis Leary.

"Descended from the apes?
Let us hope that it is not true.
But if it is, let us pray that it may not become generally known." 

FA Montagu.