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Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, volume I, no. 183
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Richelieu
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.: Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 1966 speech

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