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- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
- R. D. Lang
- Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
- La Rochefoucauld
- One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
- Etty Hilsum
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
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