"The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you."

-- Jane Porter

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“Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.”
“If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.”

Source : "Lawrence Eagleburger: Not removing Saddam Hussein 'probably a mistake'". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 21, 2001.
“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
“... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.”
“A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.”
“pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
“Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.”
“The thing is to dazzle”

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