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- You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh! The Places You'll Go!
- I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
- Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862), taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
- The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
- Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845), 1821
- We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. - John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
- Joseph Sobran
- Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
- Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994), Decouvertes (1969)
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