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- I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
- John Allston
- Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Stewart B. Johnson
- Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
- Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
- The Dhammapada (c. BC 300)
- In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
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