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- How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
- I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.
- Everett Mckinley Dirkson
- The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
- Franklin P. Jones
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
- Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
- Henry Luce
- The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
- James Swan, In Defense of Hunting
- There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
- George Bird Grinnell
- My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), A Brief History of Time, 1988
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