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- Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), The Washington Post Magazine
- One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), No Exit
- Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale E. Turner
- Between the desire
And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Hollow Men
- This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Hollow Men
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
- Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity
- We have a right to speak our minds, not an obligation to do so.
- Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, The Economist, January 5, 2006
- Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
- Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird
- The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), 2000 NAACP Address
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