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No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Unknown
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas.
Mark Twain
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Isaac Watts
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
Elinor Glyn
It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.
Lenny Bruce
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
Clifford Stoll
We walk by faith, not by sight.
Bible
Women! Ya can't live with 'em and ya can't get 'em to wear skimpy little Nazi outfits.
Emo Phillips
I bought some powdered water yesterday. I don't know what to add.
Steven Wright
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
W. Somerset Maugham
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen Covey
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
Robert Heinlein
