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There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and… — Adolf Hitler
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. — Sun Tzu
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. — Elias Canetti
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no… — George Bernard Shaw
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. — Ludwig von Mises
We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but… — Mao Zedong
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. — William Lilly
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
We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most… — Larry Page
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. — H E Bates
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as… — Penelope Hobhouse
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well. — Claude Monet
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also… — Gertrude Jekyll
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,… — Mark Twain
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. — Augustus
Only that which is well done is quickly done. — Augustus
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. — H. L. Mencken
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than… — William Feather

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