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Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.: General John Stark, (State motto of New Hampshire)
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.: Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", UK Channel 4, 2006
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.: Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

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