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- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
- La Rochefoucauld
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
- If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
- Koran, (c. 651 AD)
- Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Shopenhauer
- Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
- Mohammed Neguib
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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