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- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus of Lydia
- Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
- Whitney M. Young Jr.
- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1888).
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
- Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
- Karl Menninger
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
- Unknown
- If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
- Gurdjieff
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