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Not sure I can vouch for any of these.



Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but
they may start a winning game.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Young men make wars and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men:
courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the
vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

--Alec Guinness

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie
guarded.

--Pope John Paul II


Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the
same direction.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others.

--Otto von Bismarck



A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.

--George Bernard Shaw

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because
you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

--Larry Flynt