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if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution ought never to be entrusted to the violent; and that he only ought to be trusted with the violation of order by whom order is held sacred.
“During the 4.5 billion years of our planet’s existence, only 517 million years have been spent in ice ages. That’s less than a 10th.”
― 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
― 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, or rather—for walking implies, at least, an erect position and the bearing of a man—that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrowest ways, will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with Heaven,”
― The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
― The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
“Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the wisest among them, remarked, “When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.”
― Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
― Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
“you want to know the future you have to know what has already taken place. The past is everywhere in us.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence.”
― Martin Chuzzlewit
― Martin Chuzzlewit
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