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- Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
- Hilton Kramer
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297
- Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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