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- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Seditions and Troubles
- It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius
- From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. - Visions of Gregorian Chants
- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch-22
- What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
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