"The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved."

-- Arthur Guiterman

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“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.”

Source : David Galula (2006). “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice”, p.47, Greenwood Publishing Group
“If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me,”

Source : "Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills". Interview With Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2013.
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!”
“Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.”
“If you risk nothing you gain nothing”

Source : Bear Grylls (2012). “A Survival Guide for Life”, p.212, Random House
“What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.”
“I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.”

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