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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” — William Shakespeare

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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” — William Shakespeare

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“Speak low, if you speak love.” — William Shakespeare

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“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” — William Shakespeare

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“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” — Winston Churchill

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“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” — Winston Churchill

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“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.” — Winston Churchill

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