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William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford


Manners maketh man.

Hasidic Saying


He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]


Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Albert Camus


The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Ken Weaver


Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.

Leopold Stein


To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

Arthur Miller


Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Pan Ku


If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.

William Hazlitt


The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987


Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat

John Maynard Keynes


Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Henry Bromel


After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:20:00 GMT
Ever since Texas Rep. Ron Paul first became a known figure in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, there has been discussion about his alleged ties to white supremacists and conspiracy theorists. For the most part, Paul's supporters ...

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Ron Paul, racist? - Salon

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:20:00 GMT
Ever since Texas Rep. Ron Paul first became a known figure in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, there has been discussion about his alleged ties to white supremacists and conspiracy theorists. For the most part, Paul's supporters ...

Quotations from the news - Baptist Standard

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:57:00 GMT
“I had missed an opportunity ... to clearly assert the following: Nonbelievers have just as great a stake as believers in defending religious liberty. If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief—to ...

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