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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
 What more would you have? He has invented history.
 [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]  
 What more would you have? He has invented history.
 [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.] 
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
 History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they 
have exhausted all other alternatives.  
 History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they 
have exhausted all other alternatives. 
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Happy is the nation without a history.
Happy is the nation without a history.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.