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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas… — Adolf Hitler
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly… — Vaclav Havel
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. — Gregory Bateson
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement — James Madison
How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are… — John Nance Garner
Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the… — Takafumi Horie
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden… — Gary Snyder
'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden… — Russell Page
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been… — Andrew Weil
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. — Howard Baker
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its… — George Bernard Shaw
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. — Denis Diderot
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts... — David Seabury
Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. — Thomas Troward
Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature… — Albert Schweitzer
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph.… — Ron Tugnutt
Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or… — Unknown Author
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. — Robert Keith Leavitt
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march… — Aldous Huxley
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in… — George Bernard Shaw

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