"The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war."

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Source : Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

Desiderius Erasmus

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“My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.”

Source : "Is this it?". Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
“King Mickey- "Even in the Darkest of Darkness, there is always a Light".”
“Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.”
“Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.”
“There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.”
“Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”

Source : Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
“We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.”
“As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.”

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