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"Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none."

"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior."

"An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger."

"A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward."

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."

"Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life."

"URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's."

"When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!"

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

"Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"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."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."