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  • "When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."
    By: A. Alvarez
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  • "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
    By: Woody Allen
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  • "Only cowards insult dying majesty."
    By: Aesop
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  • "Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
    By: Douglas Noel Adams
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  • "To leave a sting within a brother's heart."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "The purpose firm is equal to the deed."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "None think the great unhappy, but the great."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "By night an atheist half-believes a God."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "By night an atheist half believes in God."
    By: Edward Young
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  • "We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."
    By: Virginia Woolf
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  • "The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
    By: Virginia Woolf
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  • "If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? Not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"
    By: Virginia Woolf
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  • "In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art."
    By: Edward O. Wilson
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    By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 187)
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    By: William Wordsworth, Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 72)
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