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- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francious de la Rochefoucauld
- People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
- Sir Henry Wotton
- One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
- Franz Schubert
- The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
- Adam Marshall
- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
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