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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914)
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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.: John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Olynthiac

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