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“I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.”
―Colin Powell

“His years with others must the sweeter be For those brief days he spent in loving me.”
―George Eliot

“Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes!”
―Vladimir Lenin

Source/Notes:
Collected Works, Vol. 18, p. 543-544 - Collected Works

“You, Honor, first you hid The fount of love's delight, Denying drafts to slake the lover's thirst.”
―Torquato Tasso

Source/Notes:
Aminta, Act I, sc. ii, line 358

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.”
―Carl Sagan

Source/Notes:
36 min 20 sec - Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update)

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.”
―Bertrand Russell

“I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.”
―Nicholas Sparks

Source/Notes:
From the article "Nicholas Sparks, Miley Cyrus share a 'Last Song' love story", as published in USA Today, November 11, 2010

“No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.”
―William Faulkner

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
―Vince Lombardi

Source/Notes:
What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership (2003 edition), McGraw Hill Professional - ISBN: 9780071420365

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.”
―Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes:
The Idea of a Universal History proposition 6 (1784)

“Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.”
―Tacitus

“Youth is the time when hearts are large,
And stirring wars
Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn
To the blade it draws.”
―Herman Melville

Source/Notes:
On the Slain Collegians, st. 1 - Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860)

“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.”
―Paul Valery

“The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”
―Benito Mussolini

“That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.”
―Francis Bacon

“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
―Arthur Schopenhauer

“The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, An easy commerce of the old and new, The common word exact without vulgarity, The formal word precise but not pedantic, The complete consort dancing together.”
―T. S. Eliot

“Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance, that will look the largest which is surrounded by the darkest background.”
―Leonardo da Vinci

Source/Notes:
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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