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- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
- I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.
- Kevin Costner, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, 1994
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)
- Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General G. C. Patton
- There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
- Lao Tse
- In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin
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