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Why Do I Feel So Exercised About What We Think Of The People Of The Middle Ages? ... I Guess It's Because So Many Of Their Voices Are Ringing Vibrantly In My Ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... Writers And Contemporary Historians Of The Period Who Seem To Me Just As Individual, Just As Alive As We Are Today. We Need To Get To Know These Folk Better In Order To Know Who We Are Ourselves.

What Is Meant By: "we Mustn't Give In To The Terrorists"? We Gave In To Them The Moment The First Bombs Fell On Afghanistan.

Saying We Will Destroy Terrorism Is About As Meaningful As Saying: We Shall Annihilate Mockery.

It Took 200 Years For The Crusaders To Create [this] Muslim Fanaticism. It Was The Exact Imitation Of Christian Intolerance.

The Romans Did Not See [the Tale Of Romulus, Remus And The She-wolf] As A Charming Story; They Meant To Show That They Had Imbibed Wolfish Appetites And Ferocity With Their Mother's Milk.