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“Grief is the price we pay for...

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II in a speech at a 9/11 memorial service
📅︎ Dec 05
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"Why do we say brushing our teeth when we are really scrubbing th...

"Why do we say brushing our teeth when we are really scrubbing them? Think about it, do you brush your hair and cat with the same ferocity?" -Bentley Surdyk II (Alaskan Movie Actor who was stoned at 4am)
📅︎ Jan 27
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War is the work of man. War is destruction of human life. War is death. To remem...

War is the work of man. War is destruction of human life. War is death. To remember the past is to commit oneself to the future. To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war. To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. - Pope John Paul II
📅︎ Nov 21
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"Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows...

"Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend. Now, I will step forward to realize this wish..." - Kairi from Kingdom Hearts II
📅︎ Dec 11
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"Freedom consists not in doing w...

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but having the right to do what we ought."--St John Paul II
📅︎ Oct 23
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"Nationalism is an infantile disease...

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein (foreshadowing World War II)
📅︎ Oct 03
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"If" - Sparta, in a response to a letter sent by Phi...

"If" - Sparta, in a response to a letter sent by Philip II of Macedonia which said "Submit because if i bring my armies to your land i will raze it to the ground"
📅︎ Sep 02
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Being miserable and treating other people...

Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God given right. —The Mayor of New York, Ghostbusters II
📅︎ Sep 01
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"As the family goes, so goes the...

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live"--Pope John Paul II
📅︎ Aug 22
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" Love your people like yourself; cultivate the affection...

" Love your people like yourself; cultivate the affections, maintain the discipline, of the army; protect the fortunes of the rich, relieve the necessities of the poor." Justin II
📅︎ Mar 27
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"A busy solitude is, I think, the ha...

"A busy solitude is, I think, the happiest life of all." - Voltaire, Letter to Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1751
📅︎ Nov 24
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Everything you're doing is b...

Everything you're doing is bad, I want you to know this. —Dr. Janosz Poha, Ghostbusters II
📅︎ Feb 18
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Size is no guarantee of quality Baldrick. Most horses ...

Size is no guarantee of quality Baldrick. Most horses are very well endowed but that does not necessarily make them sensitive lovers. —Edmund Blackadder, Black~Adder II
📅︎ Feb 10
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"The year 1916 was cursed; 1917 wil...

"The year 1916 was cursed; 1917 will surely be better!" - Tsar Nicholas II, the year of the October Revolution.
📅︎ Jan 15
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"I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It...

"I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'" -- Clint Eastwood
📅︎ May 18
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"The guys who won World War II and that wh...

"The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits." Clint Eastwood
📅︎ Mar 01
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"Every generation needs to know that freedom cons...

"Every generation needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." -- Pope Saint John Paul II
📅︎ Oct 20
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Be proud of your accomplishments. P...

Be proud of your accomplishments. Pride's all right when there's reason to be proud. —Sgt. Neff, Damien: Omen II
📅︎ Oct 21
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”...that’s the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for some...

”...that’s the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along, and you realize it was actually happiness after all.“ [ Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II, ‘The Crown’ S2–E8]
📅︎ Mar 18
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"I believe in the horse. The auto...

"I believe in the horse. The automobile is a temporary appearance" - Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 1916
📅︎ Aug 28
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An anecdote has it that when Phillip II sent a message ...

An anecdote has it that when Phillip II sent a message to Sparta saying "if I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta", the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: "If."
📅︎ Oct 04
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"An excuse is worse and more ter...

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." — Pope John Paul II
📅︎ May 05
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"Scratch a conservative and you find someone who pre...

"Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat." - God Emperor Leto Atreides II
📅︎ Mar 31
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"Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities...

"Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond crack’d ’twixt son and father." - King Lear, Act I Scene II
📅︎ Sep 01
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Be brave, young love...

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. Oscar Hammerstein II
📅︎ Nov 17
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“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe something like that. No ordinary man coul...

“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe something like that. No ordinary man could be such a fool.” George Orwell (on a left-wing rumor that America had entered World War II to crush a budding English socialist revolution.) ("Notes on Nationalism" [Polemic magazine]) (1945)
📅︎ Feb 23
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For the first time, I am ash...

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German. - Wilhelm II after Hitler's kristallnacht
📅︎ Jan 22
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In WW1, When asked what a militia of a qu...

In WW1, When asked what a militia of a quarter-million Swiss would do against a half-million German army, Kaiser Wilhelm II said...
📅︎ Apr 18
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Phillip II of Macedon saying- "You are advised to submit without further ...

Phillip II of Macedon saying- "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." For which the Spartans respond with- "If."
📅︎ Dec 10
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"This is not a must-...

"This is not a must-win. World War II was a must-win." --Marv Levy
📅︎ May 27
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"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can ...

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."- Pope John Paul II
📅︎ Dec 30
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