“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”
Robert E. Lee
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete! Robert Browning
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Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? -Sara Teasdale
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? -Sara Teasdale
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare." – Sun Tzu
“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” – Sun Tzu
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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv] -William Shakespeare
The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. -William Shakespeare
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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years. Isaac Taylor
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -Sterne, Laurence
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Rogers, Will
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"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one." – Plato
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