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Charles Bukowski Quotes: For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
         

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.


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And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

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