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- Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
- E. Atkinson
- Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
- Author Unknown
- There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
- J. W. Alexander
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
- A. J. Toynbee
- Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
- Tyron Edwards
- Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
- Madame Guizot
- A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
- South
- It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
- Jacobi
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