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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"
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It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.': Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Recrudescence of Puritanism"
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.: Thomas Gray, "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" 1742
Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.: Henry Sanders, in Sports Illustrated, Dec. 26, 1955
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5
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