"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on peace
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"A Constitution should be short and obscure."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on constitutions   

"The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on tyranny   

"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics
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"In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics   

"Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination."

Dworkin, Andrea on sex   

"To be adult is to be alone."

Rostand, Jean on adulthood   

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

Hoffer, Eric on history and historians
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"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

Cromwell, Oliver on history and historians   

"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."

Bacon, Francis on politics
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"The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice."

Auden, W. H. on politics
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"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."

Proverb, African on history and historians
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on."

Bierce, Ambrose on advice   

"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected."

Billings, Josh on advice
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"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."

Fowler, Gene on advice
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"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?"

Antoinette, Marie on famous last words
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"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"

Socrates on famous last words
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude on famous last words
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"We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology."

Freud, Sigmund on girls
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Hubbard, Elbert on editing and editors   

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on immortality
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"The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Allen, Woody on physics
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"My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else."

Allen, Woody on regret
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"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things."

Allen, Woody on science
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on skepticism
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"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on death
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."

Wilde, Oscar on daughters
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"Dictators always look good until the last minutes."

Masaryk, Tomas G. on dictators and dictatorship
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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."

Orwell, George on dictators and dictatorship
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on victory   

"Victory is a political fiction."

Unknown, Source on victory   

"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing."

Veeck, Bill on victory
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"The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak."

Bossuet, Jacques BeNigne on weakness
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