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Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "The Expelled", 1946
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, volume I, no. 183
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 1966 speech

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