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Titus Livy: In difficult and...

Titus Livy: In difficult and...

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

Source: In...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I don't believe...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I don't believe...

I don't believe a committee can write a book . . . . It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can...

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A J P Taylor: He was what...

A J P Taylor: He was what...

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those...

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A J P Taylor: We are apt...

A J P Taylor: We are apt...

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is...

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Theodore H White: When that book...

Theodore H White: When that book...

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and...

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Robert E Lee: The education of...

Robert E Lee: The education of...

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Plato: Arguments derived from...

Plato: Arguments derived from...

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Source: Phaedo.
-- Plato, (May 21...

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Plutarch: The omission of...

Plutarch: The omission of...

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

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George Santayana: Work and love...

George Santayana: Work and love...

Work and love -- these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: It is always...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It is always...

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: We all want...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: We all want...

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to 'be' something we are no longer...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Truth never damages...

Mahatma Gandhi: Truth never damages...

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Source: Non-Violence in Peace and War,...

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Mahatma Gandhi: It is easy...

Mahatma Gandhi: It is easy...

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the...

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Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

One can't believe impossible things.
I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age,...

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Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Source: On...

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Kingsley Amis: I want a...

Kingsley Amis: I want a...

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with...

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Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...

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Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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Meister Eckhart: The seed of...

Meister Eckhart: The seed of...

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed...

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