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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC
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