"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace."
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"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
-Herodotus
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"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
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"But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods."
-Herodotus
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"When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers."
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"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
-John Ruskin
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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