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- The first of all qualities of a general is courage.
- We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for…
- Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
- Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone…
- The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
- First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
- I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.
- Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was…
- The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or…
- Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
- The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried…
- When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
- To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle