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- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
- A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
- Richard Byrd
- No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
- Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
- A lot of women are getting alimony who don't earn it.
- Don Herold
- He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
- Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
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