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Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Essai sur l'histoire generale et sur les moeurs et l'espirit des nations, 1756, Chapter 70
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.: Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.

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