Today Quotes
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.Bertrand Russell
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.Hans A. Bethe
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.Mark Twain
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.Robert E. Lee
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.Anatole France
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.Charles Dickens, Bleak House
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.John Andrew Holmes