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- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
- Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.
(The way to the stars is open.) - Sergei Koroljov
- Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
- Theodor W. Adorno
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest. - Gay
- Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.
(Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.) - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
- The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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