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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."

"This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carry his load."

"Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. Our heart will never be divided again."

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Guy Fawkes

1570–1606

"What If the Gunpowder Plot Had Succeeded?"

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🇺🇸Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military

1890–1969

"Guardians of Freedom – 50th Anniversary of Operation Arkansas, by ARMY.MIL"

"Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity."

"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."

"...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment."

"I love champions. A champion has something special about him."

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Tacitus

Politics

"All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open."

"G. Gordon Liddy says that Democrats haven't given the president enough credit. I think the president deserves full credit. In fact I think he should be held fully accountable."

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

"Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas."

"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."

"You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields"

"As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

"Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth."

"Compañeros, this old man is my father. He has come to offer me rewards in the name of the Spaniards. I have always respected my father but my homeland comes first."

"The basic mistake in eyery case is made by those women who consider 'freedom of abortion' as one of their civil rights. We need new fighters - they built this life, we need people."

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."

"I have fought with gun and cutlass On the red and slippery deck With all Hell aflame within me And a rope around my neck."

"Let them try me. I shall have plenty to say about the Allies. I have some very good friends among the Americans and English, and the French industrialists, too. I have done nothing of which I am ashamed."

"Faisal, Saud is your brother. Saud, Faisal is your brother. There is no power and no strength save in God."

"We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or dangers of weapons of mass destruction."

"Idleness is the source of all disorders, and if it is at all tolerated, I shall hold the military commanders responsible, persuaded that those who tolerate idleness and vagabonds are secret enemies of the government."

"But the facts are unquestioned. The aeroplane does do these things, and if the theory does not give warranty for the practice, then it is the theory which is wrong."

"Nobody has seen shovel here in the last ten years."

"Before commencing this work I had begun to realize how children follow the Spirit."

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🇧🇷Luís Carlos Prestes

"That is the most wonderful training an actor can have. If you can speak Shakespeare, you can speak anything. And it gives you complete poise and grace of movement."

"Prokofiev’s playing of lyrical music is especially noteworthy. His phrasing can be exquisitely beautiful in its dynamic molding , and his polyphonic voicing can be clear and expressive ."

"I remember that day clearly when I left Saigon. I left my country in honor that day, not like Thieu who fled later. My cabinet, my troops, the whole diplomatic corps were there at the airport to bid me farewell."

"M: Nam efficit hoc philosophia: medetur animis, inanes sollicitudines detrahit, cupiditatibus liberat, pellit timores."

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🇫🇷Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Literature

classical music

1760–1836

"La Marseillaise: 'The Greatest National Anthem in the World, Ever' - BBC News"

"We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it; we cannot be intimidated by any force. For us our guide is the Constitution of Uganda and the laws there under."

"No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they."

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