I can feel it. That dark, heavy pall that was hanging over me for the last 8 years is almost gone. I can breathe again. I feel it.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"