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- It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- Truth fears no questions.
- Anonymous
- Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Unknown
- All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
- Holt's Law
- Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC), Telephus
- To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier
- There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
- Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign
- This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
- General Omar Bradley
- You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
- James Whistler
- No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Laws
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