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- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
- When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1824
- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Misalliance"
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
- Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Novel 'Hocus Pocus' 1990
- Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.)
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
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