Random Quotes
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.C. P. Snow
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.Bernard Weisberger, America Afire
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)
No man is useless while he has a friend.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no substitute for victory.Douglas McArthur, Farwell Speech to Joint Session of US Congress, 1952
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.Mae West
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.Henry David Thoreau
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
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.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice"