The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.
~ Dean Acheson
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
~ John Lanchester
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.
~ Albert Camus
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov
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If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
~ Franz Kafka
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A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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