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Vaclav Havel
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Brother Theodore
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
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Cowper
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.
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Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice"
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Frank Herbert, Dune
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
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Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Anatole France
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
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Bobby Unser
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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