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| #9431 | | Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes.
Galileo: No, unhappy the land that _____needs heroes.
-- Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"
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| #9432 | | Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
-- Pyrrhus
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| #9433 | | Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
-- Aesop
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| #9434 | | "Any news from the President on a successor?" he asked hopefully.
"None," Anita replied. "She's having great difficulty finding someone
qualified who is willing to accept the post."
"Then I stay," said Dr. Fresh. "I'm not good for much, but I
can at least make a decision."
"Somewhere," he grumphed, "there must be a naive, opportunistic
young welp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most
up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind."
-- R.L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly"
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| #9435 | | Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years
organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
-- David Broder
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| #9436 | | Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no
account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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| #9437 | | As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.
When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
-- Oscar Wilde, "Intentions"
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| #9438 | | Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
-- G.J. Danton
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| #9439 | | Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
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| #9440 | | Be it our wealth, our jobs, or even our homes; nothing is safe while the
legislature is in session.
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