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| A Dangerous Place
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Competition
While the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
-- Andrew Carnegie
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| Guiding and Misguiding
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| On Change
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
-- Marcus Aurelius, ...
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| Borrowing Trouble
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
-- Rudyard Kipling
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| The Undiscovered
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
-- Isaac Newton
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| First Needs
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
-- Woodrow Wilson
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| Power and Daring
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| To Recant or Not
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
-- Martin Luther
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| Patriots and Traitors
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
-- Stephen Douglas
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| Sinister Friends
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
-- William Blake
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| Love and Hope
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
-- Gustave Flaubert
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| Tranquility
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
-- Thomas Hobbes
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| Doing Things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
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| Bounding Democracy
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
-- Alexander Hamilton
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| Japanese Surrender
We declared war on America and Britain out of Our sincere desire to ensure Japan's self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia, it being far from Our thought either to infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations or to embark upon territorial aggrandizement.
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| The Body's Purpose
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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| Love's Fickle Favor
In debating with myself the contents of your letters I have been put to a great agony; not knowing how to understand them, whether to my disadvantage as shown in some places, or to my advantage as in others. I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to ...
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| Forward to Victory
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory.
-- Bernard Montgomery, to the troops on the eve of D-Day
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| Corruption of Representatives
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
-- Andrew ...
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| Facts
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams
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| Courage Defined
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
-- David Ben-Gurion
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| Giving Up Too Soon
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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| Transparency
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
-- Patrick Henry
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| Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience ...
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