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- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
- Unknown
- No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
- Franz Schubert
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
- Unknown
- The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
- Robert M. Pirsig
- When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
- I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.
- Kevin Costner, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, 1994
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