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- Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas, 1759
- I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition.
- Maggie Kuhn, Speech to Vermont state legislature, 1991
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962), Interview, 1958
- There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Elective Affinities
- How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
- If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years, 1936
- I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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