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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
Topic: Linguists
Hate is not a good counselor.
Topic: Hate
DepLeted uranium is a warcrime in progress. Doug Rokke appointed by Norman Schwarzkopf as commander of a cleanup crew of several hundred, 30 of whom have died of cancer http://indymedia.org.
Topic: War
Author: Doug Rokke
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.
Topic: Words
A radical is one who speaks the truth.
Topic: Radical
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.
Topic: Law
Author: Tacitus
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
Topic: Literature
Author: J C Hare
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
Topic: Travel
Author: George Moore
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
Topic: Guests
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Topic: Decisions
Author: Anonymous
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
Topic: Eternity
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...
Topic: Society
Author: Paul Ehrlich
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says...I'll try again tommorrow.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity.
Topic: Charity
Author: Bible
Advice: the smallest current coin.
Topic: Advice
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.
You better think about the future, for it's where you will spend the rest of your life.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown