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    “Sophocles long ago
    Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought
    Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
    Of human misery; we
    Find also in the sound a thought,
    Hearing it by this distant northern sea.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
    —Baudouin I (b. 1930)