The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success.
~ Dean Acheson
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
~ Anton Chekhov
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
~ Jonathan Swift
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
~ Marcel Proust
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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A guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it.
~ Iain Banks
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
~ Audre Lorde
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People often say that elephants never forget, but neither do cattle. They can recognize pictures of herd mates as well as humans they know.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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