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John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
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Muammar Qaddafi
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan)
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Pearl Buck
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Pliny the Younger
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
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Euripides
Leave no stone unturned.
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William Blake
Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.
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Plato
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
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Thomas Fuller
Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
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Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
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Eduard Hanslick
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
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Dorothy Parker
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
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