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- Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
- St. Francis Xavier (1506 - 1552)
- He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
- Richard Whatley
- History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
- George W. Bush (1946 - )
- If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
- George W. Bush (1946 - )
- How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
- Spanish Proverb
- Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Bible, Job v. 7.
- For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
- Bible, Matthew xxiii. 27.
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