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- It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. - Nagarjuna
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
- We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
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