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- Cursed be he that moves my bones.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Epitaph on his gravestone
- Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dhammapada
- I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
- But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), What's Wrong With the World; p. 118
- One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. - J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
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