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Charles De Gaulle
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Mary Bertone
Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
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Anonymous
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
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Publilius Syrus
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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John le Carre
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
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Gerald R. Ford
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
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Tryon Edwards
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
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Sir Frederick Browning
I think we might be going a bridge too far.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Caitlin Matthews
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.
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Orson Welles
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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