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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
"You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring."
"Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing."
"I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since."
"A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint."
"I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment."
"Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey."
"Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands."
"A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it."
"We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests."
"The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant."
"I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one."
"Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life."
"I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions."
"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
"The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion."
"The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it."
"Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go."