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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 65 AD
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?: Natalie Clifford Barney
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America. . .
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.: Gurdjieff
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

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