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If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

Denis Parsons Burkitt
 
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If politicians decide to go to war the war doesn’t end when the war is over.

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An American view,

And FDR's view on war.

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He aimed for the stars…and hit London.
Wernher von Braun’s 1977 obituary in The Economist:
 
Putin trained all his life to lead a 20th century superpower.
Zelensky trained all his life to communicate in the 21st century.
In the era of communication, Zelensky wins.

- Tomas Pueyo, Uncharted Territories
 
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
Bertrand Russell
 
"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Winston Churchill
 
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." Maimonides
 

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