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- The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
- William Walsh, Song
- If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
- Chinese Proverb
- The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Autobiographical Notes"
- What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), in Walden, "Economy"
- Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other.
- Baha'u'llah
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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