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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.: Jack London (1876 - 1916), Jack London's Tales of Adventure
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.: Linus Pauling (1901 - 1994), No More War!
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Gold Bug

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