"What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it."

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Source : 1943 Explaining the failure of the League of Nations to the Empire Parliamentary Association, London, 25 Nov.

Jan Smuts

“I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.”
“There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.”

Source : "FBI director on threat of ISIS, cybercrime". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. October 05, 2014.
“If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.”
“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.”
“You give loyalty, you'll get it back.”

Source : "How To Stay Together In A World That Can’t Stop Breaking Up" by Laura Tong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2016.
“The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.”
“There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.”

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