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- Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
- Jimmy Johnson
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
- Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
- If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
- Gail Sheehy
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
- I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
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