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- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- All of us have sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither.
- Ramsey Clark
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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