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- Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- Bible, John 8:32
- I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
- Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968), on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Pygmalion" (1913)
- What a deformed thief this fashion is.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), "The Rights of Man", 1792
- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
- How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), "Cato", Act 4, Scene 4, 1713
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