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- When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1824
- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
- Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Novel 'Hocus Pocus' 1990
- Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677), quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
- Living well is the best revenge.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- What we’re saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - ), Speech in San Francisco, 1968
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