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I have no enemies: My final Statement" (Chinese: 我没有敌人──我的最后陈述) was an essay written by Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, intended to be read at his trial in December 2009. [1] [2] Liu was charged with the crime of "inciting subversion of state power". He came before the court in Beijing ...
These loyalty quotes help put words to the value of a trusting relationship as well as the heartbreak of betrayal, by names from Shakespeare to Selena Gomez. ... respect is given, and loyalty is ...
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer; Keep your powder dry (Valentine Blacker, 1834 from Oliver's Advice) [14] Kill the chicken to scare the monkey; Kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s) Kill two birds with one stone. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
You won't have to cough and say, 'Well, your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say 'Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!' All right, you sons of bitches. You know how I feel.
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country ...
Two decades ago, when I first saw Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, I was blown away. From his authentic portrayal of the Civil Rights leader to his natural ability to command every ...
"Ideally, no one should touch my property or tamper with it, unless I have given him some sort of permission, and, if I am sensible I shall treat the property of others with the same respect." – Plato [15] (c. 420 – c. 347 BCE) "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you." – Isocrates [16] (436–338 BCE)
In The Reluctant Admiral, Hiroyuki Agawa gives a quotation from a reply by Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1942, which is similar to the famous version: "A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after ...