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- There is no possible line of conduct which has art some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.
- William Lecky
- There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
- Grace Williams
- Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures are usually the most conceited of men.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
- Bill Vaughan
- We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
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