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- Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats (1795 - 1821), Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. - John Donne (1572 - 1631), Death Be Not Proud
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet
- Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883), Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
- Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
- We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
- Americans never quit.
- General Douglas Macarthur (1880 - 1964)
- Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
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