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“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
― James Madison

“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
― Dorothy West, The Wedding

“Alexander never did what he said, Cesare never said what he did.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“历史者，所以说明社会进化的过程者也。”
― 吕思勉

“Flying fighter jet is like driving formula 1 in three dimensions.”
― Chesley Sullenberger

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss....He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“At speeds up to about 300 mph air can be regarded as incompressible, like water. In other words, the pressure differences caused by the air velocities are small compared with the pressure of the atmosphere, and so the air behaves as if its density remained constant.

For example, at 200 mph the maximum pressure that air can exert is only 5 percent of the atmospheric pressure, which has a negligible effect on the air density and the flow. But at 400 mph the pressure increases to 21 per cent and at 600 mph to 51 per cent. These pressure increases have a significant effect upon the density of the air, and, hence, upon its flow pattern and the forces that the air exerts.”
― Stanley Hooke

“Turbojets are like people: if anything is wrong, the temperature goes up.”
― Stanley Hooke

“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“The prevailing wisdom that China is the next global power is breeding paranoia about China and fostering megalomania within China. Fears of an aggressive and antagonistic China that before long is destined to be the next global power are, at best, premature; and, at worst, they can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince