I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be...
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Graham Greene
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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Abraham Lincoln
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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Robert E. Howard
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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Peter Stone
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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Bruce Sterling
More Quotes By Franz Werfel
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
... failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)
Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.
We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.
