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If you can’t do it, give up!

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

Author : Black Elk

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Author : Hermann Hesse

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Author : Sigmund Freud

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Author : Plato

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Author : Joseph J. Ellis

The thing I fear most is fear.

Author : Michel de Montaigne

Evil is only good perverted.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I’m attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I’ve had a lot of it in my life.

Author : Hector Elizondo

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

Author : Gwen Ifill

‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Author : William Shakespeare

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Author : Alfred Adler

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.

Author : Phillips Brooks

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

Author : Brad Garrett

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Author : Winston Churchill

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.