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- Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- The Buddha
- What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3
- ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
- All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
- Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
- You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- The most important things in life aren't things.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- If you talk the talk, you damn well better walk the walk.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
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