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- We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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