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This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. ↗

— James Bovard

#another #any #avoid #bush #bush administration

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#delusions #happiness #happy #kind #man

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#fears #fewest #good #good men #great

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#fame #few #those #tombstone #truth

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#length #makes #observations #out #talent

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#enthusiasm #everything #feared #great #inspiration

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#extreme #partial #runs #simplicity