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Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down, And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

Next To Courage, Willpower Is The Most Important Thing In Politics.

In 1924 Mao Took A Chinese Friend, Newly Arrived From Europe, To See The Notorious Sign In The Shanghai Park, 'chinese And Dogs Not Allowed'.

I've Been Having An Affair, But I Still Believe In Family Values.

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.