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- The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
- The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
- The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
- An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), (attributed)
- If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
- John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
- Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address 2003
- In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
- Terry Pratchett, (on the big bang theory)
- Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), The Assayer
- Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), The Crucible, act II
- Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil
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