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- Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- Dean Acheson, in Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1977
- Speak no evil of an absent friend.
(Non male loquare absenti amico) - Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus, IV, c. 190 BC
- Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994)
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- John Russell
- To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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