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The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. -- Barbara Tuchman
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. -- George Lucas
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example. -- Eric Schmidt
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War. -- Ernest Hemingway
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history. -- Kathryn Harrison
The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire. -- Preston William Slosson
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. -- Shelby Foote
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law. -- Marco Rubio

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