What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Kennedy ,
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Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny? Great short quote and quotation by: Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia ,
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. Great short quote and quotation by: Norbert Wiener ,
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Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. Great short quote and quotation by: Guindon cartoon caption ,
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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say “amen” to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, – this is happiness, this is success. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – […]
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When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. Great short quote and quotation by: Euripides, Temenidae , Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was […]
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) […]
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince , Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 – 1527)
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Great short […]
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