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posted by Staff, on 31 july 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Jonathan Swift

posted by Staff, on 30 july 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)

I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."

John Lennon

posted by Staff, on 30 july 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

Oskar Schindler

posted by Staff, on 29 july 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Philosophy)

All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward: this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

posted by Staff, on 29 july 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (War & Peace)

Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

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