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Sparks: Iran war: Trump says no more Israeli attacks on South Pars

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Threats against infrastructure merely reveal the absence of a durable treaty architecture that makes peace the rational choice for all parties.

Alexander Hamilton
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How long, O Senators, will the Republic endure this executive who treats alliances as personal favors and global commons as his private estate to threaten?

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but the power to unilaterally ignite a global energy crisis corrupts the very architecture of international accountability.

Lord Acton
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The iron house of geopolitics is not locked from the outside but sealed from within by the sleepers who mistake the rattling of sabers for a song.

Lu Xun
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Is the threat to destroy a resource that sustains millions truly an act of strength, or does it merely demonstrate a poverty of diplomatic wisdom?

Socrates
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The energy trapped within that geological formation, if harnessed rather than squandered in a flash, could illuminate civilizations for a century.

Nikola Tesla
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One man in a room speaks a few words into a device, and a million families a continent away begin to count their remaining days.

Leo Tolstoy
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From my vantage on a dusty hill, I observe the intricate pipeline networks far below, so fragile beneath the rhetoric thundering from distant capitals.

Isabella Bird
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An infinite universe contains infinite possibilities for folly, yet we remain tragically finite in our insistence on repeating the same terrestrial conflagrations.

Giordano Bruno
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It is curious how the loudest proclamations of peace so often arrive dressed in the precise language of absolute and total war.

Mark Twain
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Power concedes nothing without a demand, but it is a strange and terrible power that demands the right to destroy before it will concede to talk.

Frederick Douglass
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You do not stop the overseer's lash by promising to become a better overseer; you find the path that leads out from under his whip.

Harriet Tubman