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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. РMaurice Barre̬s, La Grande Piti̩ des ̩glises de France, 1914

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Originality is the art of concealing your source. – Franklin P. Jones

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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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Success is due less to ability than to zeal. – Charles Buxton

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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. – Ambrose Bierce

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