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The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.
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Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.
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It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Born:
December 4, 1911
Died:
March 3, 1983
(aged 71)
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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne was a professor of English literature, lecturer in naval architecture, novelist, historian, poet and biographer. Born at Saltash, Cornwall, Payne was the son of an English naval architect and a French mother.
Known for:
Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)
The dream and the tomb
Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China (1950)
Ivan the Terrible (1975)
Zero: The Story of Terrorism (1950)
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