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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.: Roland Barthes, Esprit
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.: Chief Seattle
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Night Thoughts
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.: Robert Byrne
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.: Nancy Kerrigan
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.: Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

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