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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#consists #false #knowledge #negation #only

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#apply #energies #first #growing #incessantly

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#al #based #drawing #monthly #people

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#big #clock #cousins #find #gay

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#less #little #more #much #relative

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women? ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#beautiful women #full #just #me #women

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#did #eyes #front #having #know

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#moment #neutrality #only #policy #possible