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- It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
- Sir James MacKintosh
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Carl Barzun
- Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
- Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)
- If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious.
- Frank Boyden
- Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)
- It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
- Arcesilaus
- He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
- Apuleius (124 AD - 170 AD)
- Education has for its object the formation of character.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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