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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
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William F. Halsey
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
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The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Circles, Essays: First Series, 1903
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Voice of the Master
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
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It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
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