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- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
- Peter De Vries
- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
- T. E. Lawrence (1888 - 1935), "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
- Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)
- Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.
- George Saunders, The Guardian (UK) July 22, 2006
- No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799), (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
- Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
- Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936)
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