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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

— Konrad Adenauer A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965)

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One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.

We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.

I see the significance of the Marshall Plan in the fact that probably for the first time in history a victorious country held out its hand so that the vanquished might rise again.

I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.

The Soviet Government and the Soviet people should not lend themselves to co-operating in the conversion into a concentration camp of part of a large neighbouring country against the will of its inhabitants.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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