Today Quotes
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Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.Voltaire, Zadig
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.Honore de Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.Honore de Balzac
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.Honore de Balzac
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart, 10-Dec-2003
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.Martin Luther