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Here, in the west of Ireland, the Romans had never marched, tramp, tramp, tramp: had never fortified a camp: had never built a well-ordered, sensible, useful road. It was a land where common sense and an orderly way of life were unknown. Hercule Poirot looked down at the tips of his patent- leather shoes and sighed. He felt forlorn and very much alone. The standards by which he lived were here not appreciated.

-Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ne¤  e Miller
  The Labours of Hercules.

The sociologists of knowledge have been among those raising high the banner which reads: 'We don't know if what we say is true, but it is at least significant.' The sociologists and psychologists engaged in the study of publicopinionand mass communications aremost often found in the opposed camp of the empiricists† 'We don't know that what we say is particularly significant, but it is at least true.'

-Merton, Robert King
  Social Theory and Social Structure (rev. edn), pt.3, introduction.

I could have transformed this greyassembly hall into an armed camp of Blackshirts, a bivouac for corpses. I could have nailed up the doors of Parliament.

-Mussolini, Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader]
  Inaugural speech to the Lower House as Prime Minister, 16 Nov.

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