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- Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
- William Proxmire
- Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Unknown
- Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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