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John Herschel
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
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Henry Louis Mencken
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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Samuel Johnson
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
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Arabic Proverb
God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.
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French Proverb
There is no flying without wings.
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Dwight D Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.
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Alexander Hamilton
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon
All phone calls are obscene.
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