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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
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Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.: Robin Williams (1951 - )
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?": Quentin Crisp
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
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