Quotes, Quotes, and More Quotes
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"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. The more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray". -Sir Francis Bacon
"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Conscience is the still, small voice which tells a candidate that what he is doing is likely to lose him votes." -Anonymous
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking." -Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)
"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace." -Albert Einstein
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." -Isaac Newton
"Journalists do not believe the lies of politicians, but they do repeat them -- which is even worse!" -Michel Colucci, comedian and actor
"One should count each day a separate life." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Corporation: n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -Ambrose Bierce
"If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949)
"I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery." -Jonathan Swift
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach." -Aleister Crowley
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." -Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." -Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)
"It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality." -Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." -Samuel Johnson
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"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. The more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray". -Sir Francis Bacon
"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Conscience is the still, small voice which tells a candidate that what he is doing is likely to lose him votes." -Anonymous
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking." -Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)
"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace." -Albert Einstein
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." -Isaac Newton
"Journalists do not believe the lies of politicians, but they do repeat them -- which is even worse!" -Michel Colucci, comedian and actor
"One should count each day a separate life." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Corporation: n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -Ambrose Bierce
"If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949)
"I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery." -Jonathan Swift
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach." -Aleister Crowley
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." -Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." -Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)
"It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality." -Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." -Samuel Johnson
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