It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. (Carroll Quigley)

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

Carroll Quigley

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