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- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Jung
- From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
- Napoleon
- If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
- Old Russian saying
- Live simply that others might simply live.
- Elizabeth Seaton
- The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
- When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
- Chinese proverb
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