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- Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Laws are silent in times of war.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
- Jonathan Larson, R.E.N.T
- No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), Anthropologist (1901-1978)
- There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 01-07-09
- Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.1
- There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act II, sc. 3
- Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
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