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- To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1881
- Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
- If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistulae Morales
- To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
- e e Cummings (1894 - 1962), Selected Letters, 1955
- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Religions are born and may die, but superstition in immortal.
- Will and Ariel Durant, the Age of reason Begins, 1950, The Age of Reason Begins, 1950
- I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937), Personal credo
- No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), On Senator Joseph McCarthy, See It Now, March 7, 1954
- The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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