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- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi
- Cursed be he that moves my bones.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Epitaph on his gravestone
- Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dhammapada
- No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
- But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), What's Wrong With the World; p. 118
- One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. - J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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