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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#criminality #enemy #folly #gates #luxury

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#eyes #intentions #mark #portrait #soul

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

Wars are begun by frightened men. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#frightened #men #wars

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am. ↗

— Henry J. Kaiser

#am #around #assume #everyone #having

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#attendant #being #constant #credibility #degree

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#dense #frequently #garb #humility #mask

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#being #existence #infinite #more #perfections

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#attention #ever #first #future #ironic

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. ↗

— Julian Clary

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