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Bertrand Russell


One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Danish proverb


Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004


Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

John Ruskin


We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Sophocles


Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Henry Ward Beecher


We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Johann von Goethe


Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.

Gertrude Stein


Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Solomon Short


Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed

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