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I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room. — Mick Foley
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not… — Moshe Dayan
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness… — T.E. Lawrence
Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take… — Ban Ki-moon
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can… — Dale Carnegie
The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every… — David Goodstein
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a… — Gustav Mahler
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,… — Unknown Author
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I… — Carl Jung
Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had… — David Icke
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. — John Quincy Adams
Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film actually features Al… — Jay Leno
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The… — Tryon Edwards
There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only… — Swami Vivekananda
In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil. — Swami Vivekananda
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both… — Paul Halmos
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish… — Guy de Rothschild

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