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Ten Random Quotes

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."
Tony Benn

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well."
Albert Einstein

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
Quentin Crisp

"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
Emile Lahud

"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."
Mother Teresa

"When a civilization takes up the study of itself, it is always high noon."
Michael Mooney

"To me the "female principle" is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws."
Ursula K. Le Guin

"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
Simon Cameron

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
Frank Crane

"The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices."
John Updike

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