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- If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
- Jewish Proverb
- If the young only knew; if the old only could.
- French Proverb
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Death"
- When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), Common Sense
- Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
- Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
- Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
- Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn)
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