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- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. - Nagarjuna
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Herman Cain
- Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
- J. C. Watts
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