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 I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. - Cicero  Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! History, n: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore. Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening. I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus. To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down." The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. Life is a long lesson in humility. I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. 
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