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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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The soul of this man is in his clothes.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.: Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
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Experience teaches only the teachable.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)

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