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It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

—Maya Angelou, 2011

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

—George W. Bush, 2004

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

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

—Horace Walpole, 1745

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951
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