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- For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
- David H. Lawrence
- An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
- Stanislaus J. Lec
- Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?
- Edwin A. Robinson
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981)
- When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
- Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
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