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“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow”. –Nahum Tate

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil”. –Robert A. Heinlein

“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it”. –Giordano Bruno

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work”. –Michael Jackson

“The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President”. –Francis Biddle

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in”. –Voltaire

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee; And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me”. –Robert Frost

“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself”. –Alexis Carrel

“To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die”. –Luc de Clapiers

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained”. –Duke of Wellington

“The greatest enemy to individual freedom is the individual himself'” –Saul Alinsky