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- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
- Robert South
- We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
- La Rochefoucauld
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
- Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Shopenhauer
- Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
- Mohammed Neguib
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