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“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
― Georg Hegel

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.”
― Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle

“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
― C.S. Forester, The African Queen

“Innocence is a kind of insanity”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American