"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

Maugham, W. Somerset on obstinacy
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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

Hayes, Helen on age and aging
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"The only argument against losing faith is that you also lose hope – and generally charity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on faith   

"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch. "

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"God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven."

Macdonald, George on adversity
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"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other mens labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same nameliberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable namesliberty and tyranny. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised
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"As long as men still feel they are nothing without a call to duty, they will look for a place in the world where they find themselves excellent at something. One of those places is, and has always been, battle."

Owen, Walter on war   

"They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on oppression   

"Stupidity is a force unto itself."

Proverb, Latin on stupidity
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"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."

LeMay, Curtis on war   

"To summarize the summary, people are a problem."

Adams, Douglas on
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"If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking."

Patton, George S. on thoughts and thinking
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"There is no time of life past learning something."

Ambrose, St. on learning
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"Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers ..."

Saint Ambrose of Milan on catholicism   

"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."

Mill, John Stuart on individuality
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"What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called."

Mill, John Stuart on individuality   

"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."

Mill, John Stuart on state   

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

Mill, John Stuart on belief
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"Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God."

Proverb, Hasidic on fear
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"Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left."

Ray, John on work   

"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

Orwell, George on tragedies
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"One sword keeps another in the sheath."

Herbert, George on peace   

"O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;"

Shakespeare, William on ignorance
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental."

Steinbeck, John on war   

"Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better."

Steinbeck, John on nostalgia   

"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."

Gibbon, Edward on   

"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists
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"Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night."

Wilde, Oscar on despair
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"The problem is not Republican principles. The problem is unprincipled Republicans."

Rachel, Alfonzo on politics   

"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. "

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"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."

Aquino, Maria Corazon on justice   

"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."

Luther, Martin on truth
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"Despair is the only genuine atheism."

Paul, Jean on despair
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

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"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters."

Khan, Genghis on pleasure