"Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time."
Robert Dallek
"Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread."
Moutasem Algharati
"Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered."
Susannah Centlivre
"Those who talk more about others' wrongs are actually Perilous, Be Careful."
Mohith Agadi
"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."
Justin K. McFarlane Beau
"Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?"
Zhuangzi
"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed."
Zhuangzi
"Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality."
Sam Harris
"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
Veronica Roth
"Management' of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation."
Bill McKibben
"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
P.C. Cast
"I seek to humble myself, so I won't attract the harsh experiences that will."
Katelyne Parker
"The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God."
Antoni Gaudi
"The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance."
Paul Washer
"You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it."
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