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- Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
- Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- Dean William R. Inge
- The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), On Holland, Generally Speaking, 1928
- Whatever limits us, we call Fate.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Fate, The Conduct of Life, 1860
- I asked tom if countries always apologize when they had done wrong, and he says, 'Yes, the little one does.'
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894
- Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
- No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Speech to Boston World Affaires Council
- The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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