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“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

“War is young men dying and old men talking”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”
― Victor Hugo

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”
― Confucius

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”
― Michael de Montaigne

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The really unusual day would be one where nothing unusual happens.”
― Persi Diaconis

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”
― Anonymous

“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.”
― Galileo Galilei

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
― Carrie Jones, Need

“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge

“Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge

“If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Truth is one, but the wise men know it as many; God is one, but we can approach Him in many ways.”
― rigveda, The Rig Veda

“The quickest way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”
― A.A. Milne

“If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods,

‘And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?

‘Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul,
With all the speed ye may;
I, with two more to help me,
Will hold the foe in play.
In yon strait path a thousand
May well be stopped by three.
Now who will stand on either hand,
And keep the bridge with me?

Then out spake Spurius Lartius;
A Ramnian proud was he:
‘Lo, I will stand at thy right hand,
And keep the bridge with thee.’
And out spake strong Herminius;
Of Titian blood was he:
‘I will abide on thy left side,
And keep the bridge with thee.’

‘Horatius,’ quoth the Consul,
‘As thou sayest, so let it be.’
And straight against that great array
Forth went the dauntless Three.
For Romans in Rome’s quarrel
Spared neither land nor gold,
Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life,
In the brave days of old.

Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great:
Then lands were fairly portioned;
Then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.

Now Roman is to Roman
More hateful than a foe,
And the Tribunes beard the high,
And the Fathers grind the low.
As we wax hot in faction,
In battle we wax cold:
Wherefore men fight not as they fought
In the brave days of old.”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member”
― Groucho Marx

“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.”
― Anonymous

“The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.”
― Auguste Comte

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“An amateur practices something until he gets it right.

A professional practices until he can't get it wrong!”
― - unknown from Mastery, by Barry Green