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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb”. –René Magritte

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand”. –George Moore

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski