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- Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1931
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
- No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- 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)
- Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
- Robert Jackson
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