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    I would rather have a plain, russet-coated captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call “a gentleman” and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
    Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

    A few honest men are better than numbers.
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.
    Germaine Greer (b. 1939)