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All I know is that I know nothing. - Socrates

Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. - Michael Caine

During the interview segment of the miniseries Band of Brothers, Winters quoted a passage from a letter he received from Sergeant Mike Ranney, "I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'"

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Albert Einstein

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Edward Sagan

Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln / The Gettysburg Address

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. - Winston Churchill

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

If you’re going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill

In God we trust. Everyone else, bring data.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. - Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. - Douglas MacArthur

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Shakespeare

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is everything works but no one knows why. In our laboratory, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.

We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded. - Maj. Richard Winters from Band of Brothers

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge. - John Nesbit

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender! - Winston Churchill

What I mean by that, sir, is if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler... with a clean line of sight... Pack your bags, fellas. War's over. Amen. - Private Jackson from Saving Private Ryan (1998)

You can’t force someone to fall in love with you but, you can definitely improve your odds. - Yuri Orlov / Lord of War

You go deep into space, you go deep into time.

彼狡童兮，不与我言兮。维子之故，使我不能餐兮。彼狡童兮，不与我食兮。维子之故，使我不能息兮。 - 国风·郑风·狡童

兵者不祥之器，非君子之器，不得已而用之。恬淡为上，胜而不美。 - 孙子兵法

但在对于新闻要不要立法的问题上，中共的党内高层是有不同意见的。时任中 央常委的陈云就曾明确地说，“在国民党统治时期，制定了一个新闻法，我们共产党人仔细研究它的字句，抓它的辫子，钻它的空子。现在我们当权，我看 还是不要新闻法好，免得人家钻我们的空子。没有法，我们主动，想怎样控制 就怎样控制。”（参见孙旭培：《三十年 新闻立法历程与思考》，载《炎黄春 秋》2012年第2期）

当年的捷克斯洛伐克政府中，设立了一个“海军部”，结果，苏联老大哥就对捷克人说：你们是内陆国家，设什么海军部？捷克人回答说：那你们不是也设了文化部吗？

美国是自由世界的核心，民主的保护神，人民的朋友，专制者的敌人。所有的封建专制统治者都把美国当眼中钉。美国是人类社会的成功模式的榜样。 - 中共《新华日报》1943年7月4日社论

“脑残”的定义：Your brain has two parts: the left & the right. Your left brain has nothing right, and your right brain has nothing left.

一个肮脏的国家，如果人人讲规则而不是谈道德，最终会变成一个有人味儿的正常国家；一个干净的国家，如果人人都不讲规则却大谈道德、高尚，最终这个国家会堕落成为一个伪君子遍布的肮脏国家。 - 胡适

英国经济学家杰文斯在1865年曾这样描述：北美和俄国的平原是我们的玉米地，加拿大和波罗地海是我们的林区，澳大利亚是我们的牧场，秘鲁是我们的银矿，南非和澳大利亚是我们的金矿，印度和中国是我们的茶叶种植园，东印度群岛是我们的甘蔗，咖啡，香料种植园，美国南部是我们的棉花种植园。

长兄于病视神，未有形而除之，故名不出于家。中兄治病，其在毫毛，故名不出于闾。若扁鹊者，镵血脉，投毒药，副肌肤，闲而名出闻于诸侯。 - 扁鹊