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Henry Louis Mencken
Life is a dead-end street.
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Cicero
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
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John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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John W. Gardner
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
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Claude M. Bristol
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
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H.L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Chrysippus
Thought is the fountain of speech.
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James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
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Aprocrypha
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
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Malcolm S. Forbes
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
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Al Seckel
In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' '
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