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- To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures are usually the most conceited of men.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
- Bill Vaughan
- We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- All of us have sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither.
- Ramsey Clark
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