"In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general happiness (or whatever the end is) to establish definite rules for its pursuit."

-- Allen W. Wood

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“I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.”

Source : "Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.
“I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.”
“Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.”
“Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebodyâ€™s telling you to keep your mind clear?”
“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.”
“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
“[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.”
“With faint praises one another damn.”

Source : The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32

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