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- People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
- Edward Chapin
- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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