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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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James F. Byrnes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Robertson Davies
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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Suze Orman
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.
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Anonymous
Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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Alain
What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
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John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
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Saint Bernard, Epistle
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
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