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- I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. - William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.
- Roderic Owen
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
- Pliny The Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
- Lord Acton
- The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
- William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980)
- The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
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