"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.”
“I'll have spent most of the day before the match doing some preparation. That's a little bit like studying for your exams. You need to know the personalities involved, what the stories are surrounding the game and how they've come into this game. You do a lot of preparation. I like to go in knowing more than I need.”
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”
“God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite the opposite. God will let you do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, with whomever you want to do it, and as often as you want to do it. When was the last time God stopped you from doing anything?”
“Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.”
“Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.”

Source : Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson 'Dwight Morrow' (1935) ch. 3
“When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became an organization in which nations would at least keep talking instead of shooting. Soon it was discovered ... that words were as deadly as any weapon, and when these words had a number of interpretations they could and did lead to conflict.”
“The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.”

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