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- The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
- A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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