“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?”
– Blaise Pascal
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“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship… the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
– Hermann Göring
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I love you – John Keats
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
– John Keats
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The most difficult thing – Amelia Earhart
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
– Amelia Earhart
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Tenderness of heart – Jane Austen
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
– Jane Austen
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These mountains – Najwa Zebian
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
– Najwa Zebian
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Schizophrenic
“People who are born deaf and happen to be schizophrenic have some weird experiences. Someone born deaf, that has never been able to hear, uses Sign Language as their actual language. Not a representative language. Like the sign for water just is water, not the sign for water. When these people are schizophrenic and “hear” voices, they actually see disembodied hands floating in mid air signing to them.”
All planets in the solar system fit between the earth and the moon. The sun does not. Sharks are older than trees.
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Self-discipline – Harry S Truman
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”
– Harry S Truman
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Do not wait – William Butler Yeats
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
– William Butler Yeats
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Driving – George Carlin
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
– George Carlin
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Self esteem – Unknown
“Self esteem comes from doing hard things, not easy ones.”
– Unknown
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Fools – Claude McDonald
“Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.”
– Claude McDonald
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Democracy – HL Mencken
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
– HL Mencken