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- If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
- The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Speech in the Senate, May 27, 1834
- Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Beggars, 1903
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of affirmation, address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays, 1961
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