"The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

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“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

“I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.”

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"And so men organized themselves for the sake of their technology as they never had for their principles. The sea’s politics were unarguable."

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Literature1949

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"There were a lot of utopias in the nineteenth century, wonderful societies that we might possibly construct. Those went pretty much out of fashion after World War I. And almost immediately one of the …"

— Margaret Atwood

Literature1939

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"Katie Hepburn went to the meetings. She was a good friend of 's. I had a little car, a little broken down Ford Roadster with a rumble seat. I used to go around and collect people Saturday night and we…"

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"The one essential thing is bhakti, loving devotion to God. Do the Theosophists seek bhakti? They are good if they do. If Theosophy makes the realization of God the goal of life, then it is good. One c…"

— Ramakrishna

Religion1836–1886

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