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- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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