Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment. - Napoleon Bonaparte - Quotesmemo.com

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I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

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The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

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Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

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Elie Wiesel

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You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

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Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

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Philip Larkin

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Samuel Johnson

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He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

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