Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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T. S. Eliot
One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
Edmund Burke
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
Yann Martel
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
Banksy
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Judy Blume
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Frances Beinecke
As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
