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Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.: Horace Smith
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.: VII Putnam
I will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.: Frank Hughes
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.: President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

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