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Quote by Horatio Nelson
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacki

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. – Horatio Nelson

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. – Horatio Nelson

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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. – Horatio Nelson

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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. – Jules Renard

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Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. – Jerry Saltz

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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And its O.K., but its of no account. – V. S. Naipaul

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. – Jean de la Bruyere

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, shes too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldnt stand hearing me any more! – Marla Sokoloff

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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. – Lewis Thomas

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. – Aeschylus

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