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- War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- Charlton Ogburn, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
- Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
- Hanns Johst, Schlageter, act 1 scene 1
- The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
- If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)
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