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- Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)
- Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), The Corsair (1814)
- We need never be ashamed of our tears.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), Great Expectations
- There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.
- John Webster (1580 - 1625), The White Devil (1612)
- Curiosity is the key to creativity.
- Akio Morita (1921 - ), Made in Japan (1986)
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Silas Marner (1861)
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Natural History of Intellect (1893)
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
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