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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

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Kelly Miller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1863
Born: July 23
Died: 1939
Died: December 29
Essayist
Mathematician
Sociologist
Winnsboro
South Carolina
The Bard of the Potomac
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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
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Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.
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Genius has no age, no country, no race it belongs to mankind.
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... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.
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For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
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In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
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In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
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With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
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