Bernard Avishai

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

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Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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Fanny Burney

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

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W. B. Yeats

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

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William J. H. Boetcker

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

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James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

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Virginia

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

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Cicero

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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