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- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
- Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
- Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
- Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
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