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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
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But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Phoenician Women, 409 BC
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943
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The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Temper of Our Time, 1967
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There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957), Where the Blue Begins,1922
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.: John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.: Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959), Universities, part 3, 1930
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Thomas Hart Benton, Chapter 12, 1897
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.: John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August moon, Act I, scene I, 1957
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