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- Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), (attributed)
- It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
- I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875), Saint's Tragedy (act III, sc. 1)
- Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Midnight Sun, 1992
- There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
- Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
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