Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

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