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George Eliot


It's never too late to be who you might have been.

Benjamin Disraeli


There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Bertrand Russell


The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Thomas Pickering


In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Kahlil Gibran


Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills

Father Jerome Cummings


Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

George Smith Patton, Jr.


It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Euripides


I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Edward Irving Koch


If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Helen Keller


No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Sir Arthur Helps


It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

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