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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#frailty #history #opinion #public #public opinion

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#concerning #exchange #geneva #ideas #itself

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months? ↗

— Eva Braun

#good #had #haven #him #i

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#time #youth #beauty

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#channels #day #down #end #end of the day

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #distinct #government #having #however

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#comes #cradle #first #underwear