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“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.”
“A bad past is no excuse for a bad present. ”
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”
“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”
“Man that is born of women is of few days, and full of trouble. ”
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
“Feelings are not supposed to be logical.Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.”
“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.”
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
“God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.”
“With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.”
“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
“The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.”
“Never strike your wife - even with a flower.”
“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”
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