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- Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), A Passage to India, 1924
- The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999
- America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Inaugural address, 2001
- The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
- Abigail Van Buren (1918 - )
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
- A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- A camel never sees its own hump.
- African Proverb
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