Hans Koning quotes:
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The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.
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Agitation and commitment are dangerous for the peace of humanity, and the only thing which is even more dangerous is their absence.
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Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.
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This is a tragic world we live in.
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War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.
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For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class