"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
-Thomas Hardy
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-Megawati Sukarnoputri
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
-William Boetcker
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
-Dame Edith Evans
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"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
-Patrick Campbell
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
-Alexandre Vinet
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"There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage."
-Bill Hunter
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