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- There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch.
- William Of Orange
- You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1856)
- Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
- Thomas J. Watson
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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