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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban



To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. ~Horace



Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring



Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain



If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons



Most people wish to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity. ~Author Unknown



Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ~Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, Witches and other Night Fears, 1823



Skepticism is history's bedfellow. ~Edgar Saltus



Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978



Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. ~Steve Forbes



For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. ~Loring A. Schuler



So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. ~Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Magazine, 4 June 1978



The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ~Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967



To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~Victor Hugo



It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~Oscar Wilde



If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! ~George Macaulay Trevelyan



What's in a name? That which we call a rose



Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966