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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Winston Churchill

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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

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Every dog must have his day.

Jonathan Swift

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Juvenal

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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Juvenal

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