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- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
- Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - ), Mary Richards, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
- The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
- Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
- I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916), Jack London's Tales of Adventure
- The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- "Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so. - William Carleton
- All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
- Mike Myers
- "Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
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