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- The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
- From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
- One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.
- Leone Levi
- Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
- Leone Levi
- Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.
- Richard Guggenheimer
- To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
- Leopold Stein
- That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
- Harold Laki
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