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- Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
- The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05
- Desperate is not a sexual preference.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 01-08-09
- I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
- Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. - John Donne (1572 - 1631), Death Be Not Proud
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