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- He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
- Thomas Adams
- He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
- I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
- Mary Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
- William Harvey (1578 - 1657)
- Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.
- Rita Mae Brown
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
- D. L. Moody (1837 - 1899)
- It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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