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Miscellaneous Quotes
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon Bonaparte He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher - and that is good for every man. Socrates Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell The quickest way to end a war is to lose it. George Orwell These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. Henri Coanda Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal. Friedrich Durrenmatt Where we go depends upon what we know, and what we know depends on where we go. saying among geographic profilers
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