Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.


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Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
ALEXANDER SMITH
Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER
I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER
The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE
There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE
That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER
It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER
Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER
I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER
When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE
To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE