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"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    Share

"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. "

Stanhope, Philip Dormer on uncategorised    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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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"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

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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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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So the most restless vagabond finally longs to return to his native land and finds in his little cottage, at the breast of his wife, in the circle of his children, in the labor of supporting them, the bliss he sought in vain in the great world. - Goethe, The Sufferings of Young Werther (tr. Harry Steinhauer)

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