"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal."
-Jack Abramoff
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"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
-Jack Abramoff
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"Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail."
-Shane Filan
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"Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call."
-Kilari Anand Paul
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"By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties."
-Wilhelm Frick
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"We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds."
-Igor Ivanov
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