Random Quotes
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The only thing sadder than a battle won is a battle lost.Robert Jordan
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.Henry Ford
The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.Tupac Amaru Shakur
Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.Geoff Arbuthnot
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
God can be addressed, but not expressed.Martin Buber