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- Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970), War Memoirs, 1960
- In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake, 1967
- At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck, China, Past and Present, 1972
- There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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