By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful. Letter to Polish Journalist
I say patience, and shuffle the cards. Don Quixote
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. Like a train into which one jumps without thinking, and without asking oneself where it is going. The Counterfeiters
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." The Analects of Confucius
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