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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#attention #daily #days #did #eight

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. ↗

— Voltaire

#friendship #liable #marriage #soul

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. ↗

— Voltaire

#dead #friend #great #humanitarian #loyal

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#aristocrat #career #cast #chinese #frontier

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#cold #control #covered #face #frankly

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #freedom #fundamentalism #i #much

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#allow #because #believed #cannot #crime

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#appears #believed #black #born #declaration

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#additional #avoid #effort #every #fighting