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- Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
- Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
- Hobart Brown
- If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
- All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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