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- If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping.
- Ralph Green and Gregory Garcia, Raising Hope, Dream Hoarders, October 5, 2010
- Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
- The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.
- Henry L. Ellsworth, U.S. commissioner of patents, Annual Report, 1843
- A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1950
- There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
- But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Phoenician Women, 409 BC
- We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943
- The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Temper of Our Time, 1967
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