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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

John Stuart Mill

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?

Henry David Thoreau

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Simone de Beauvoir

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is always before you. Love it.

André Breton /

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The countenance of bravery has a share in the victory.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

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Penitence follows hasty decisions.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

It is stupid to complain about misfortune that is your own fault.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

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What you suppose to be in flight is often wont to face you.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

To give everything and not demand anything in return, that is beautiful

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

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To make her onset worse, malice pretends to be good.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

Those who would do evil never fail to find a reason.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

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