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- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
- The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
- Chinese proverb
- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
- A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush (1925 - )
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Balthasar Gracian
- Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
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