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- In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748
- If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
- Olin Miller
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