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Marcus Tullius Cicero


For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

John Lancaster Spalding


Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

Gertrude Stein


The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Saki


The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

D. W. Brogan


For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

Anon.


Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman


Who will bell the cat?

Jose Simon


In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:06:00 GMT
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Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:45:35 GMT
"I consider this incident a coup attempt against the state by Reinado and it failed ... This government won't fall because of this.'' -- East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao on rebel soldiers shooting and seriously wounding that country's president and opening fire on him.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:42:27 GMT
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