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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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4.12.02

"The enemy has an ideology, and an hour spent surfing the Web will give the average citizen at least the kind of insights that he or she might have found during World Wars I and II by reading Mein Kampf or the writings of Lenin, Stalin or Mao.''

Cohen acknowledges it is impolitic and "deeply uncomfortable'' for the administration to say such things. "Nobody would like to think that a major world religion has a deeply aggressive and dangerous strain in it � a strain often excused or misrepresented in the name of good feelings.

But uttering uncomfortable and unpleasant truths is one of the things that defines leadership," he said.

At the same time, social conservatives are resisting Bush's efforts to portray Islam in a favourable light.

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