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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

- Rudyard Kipling

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'

- Aeschylus

No man is demolished but by himself.

- Thomas Bentley

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.

- Voltaire

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

- Edmund Burke

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

- Tacitus

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women, gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

- Pope John