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- In nature there are neither rewards or punishments - there are consequences.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
- Coventry Patmore
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment; there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
- Otto Kleppner
- Beware of telling an improbable truth.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
- We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the luke-warm approval of men of intelligence.
- Vauvenargues
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