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- Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
- It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
- J. R. Platt
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
- Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
- The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
- George Iles
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- It would only take one generation of forgetfulness to put us back intellectually several hundred years.
- Dean Tollefson
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