If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
-- Lord John Russell
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that collossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
-- Samuel Butler
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.
-- Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Neat, clean, simple...and almost perfect.
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Lots of people love to criticize the Beatles for their many real or imagined flaws. This ain't one of them.
The rate of extinctions is dropping. Bird and mammal extinctions peaked at 1.6 a year around 1900 and have since dropped to about 0.2 a year. The extinction rate has fallen farther in rich countries, where people can afford to pay for a cleaner environment https://t.co/oG5tcrxAYj