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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted h

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. – Edward Young

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Learning
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The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. – Edward Young

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Future
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. – John Bolton

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. – Thucydides

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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. – Aesop

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All honors wounds are self-inflicted. – Andrew Carnegie

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. – Barry Goldwater

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