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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. Charles Dickens
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity. GB Shaw
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war. -- Frederick the Great (1777)
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere --Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation --Oscar Wilde
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. --Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American political theorist, writer
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