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- Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
- Hugh Prather
- Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923
- He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
- The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
- I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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