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Sir Walter Besant
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Homer, The Iliad
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
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Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.
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Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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Bertrand Russell
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
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William J. Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Stanley Lindquist
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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