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“Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton

tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland, lewis-caroll, mad-hatter, movie-quote

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“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.”
― Thucydides

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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law

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“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
― Archilochus

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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

tags: cowardice, fighting, renaissance-man, thinking, well-roundedness

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