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Claiborne Pell
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
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H. L. Mencken
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
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Raymond Justice
I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised.
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Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.
.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
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Robert Half
What happens when the future has come and gone?
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Albert Einstein
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Dwight D Eisenhower
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Oscar Fingall O\'Flahertie Wills Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Carl Lotus Becker
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
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