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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.: Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.: Sun-tzu (~400 BC), (attributed)
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998), Quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music
Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

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