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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
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"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."


"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."


"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."


"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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