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They can because they think they can.
VirgilVirgil Fortune sides with him who dares.
VirgilVirgil No benefits can be expected from war.
VirgilVirgil Trust one who has gone through it.
VirgilVirgil Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VirgilVirgil Time is flying never to return.
VirgilVirgil The greatest wealth is health.
VirgilVirgil Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead
VirgilVirgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
VirgilVirgil The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
VirgilVirgil Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
VirgilVirgil Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
VirgilVirgil Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
VirgilVirgil Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
VirgilVirgil Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
VirgilVirgil Time carries all things, even our wits, away.
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Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.
Ted CruzTed Cruz But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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