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- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance
- War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
- Colton
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- Dryden
- Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh
- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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