"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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"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.“
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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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."
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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."
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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?"
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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