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Churton Collins
In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.
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Douglas Adams
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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Louis D. Brandeis
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'
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Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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Lee Iacocca
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Pliny the Elder
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Phillip Stanhope
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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Spinoza
Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essense of inhumanity.
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