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posted by Staff, on 21 july 2019 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

Marilyn Manson

posted by Staff, on 21 july 2019 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

Madame was not best pleased at being contradicted on a professional matter, and when Madame lost her temper you usually found it afterwards in the bill.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

posted by Staff, on 20 july 2019 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

Francis Bacon

posted by Staff, on 20 july 2019 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)

Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

posted by Staff, on 19 july 2019 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Politics)

The West as a whole in the early 1990's became obsessed with a peace dividend that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forgot that the only real peace dividend is peace.

Margaret Thatcher

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