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- Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. - Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)
- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
- You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
- Lyndon Johnson
- If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
- Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
- ...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
- John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Boswell's Life, 1770
- The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
- John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
- You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
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