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Aeschylus
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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William James
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
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Aristide Briand
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
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Sophocles, Electra
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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Don Marquis
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Real Live Preacher
Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
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Epictetus
Only the educated are free.
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Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail.ca
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
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Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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Aristotle
All proofs rest on premises.
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