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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Circle, 1921
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748
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Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience, 1849
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
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When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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