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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
Plato
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
Helen Keller
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Khalil Gibran
“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
Heraclitus
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
John F. Kennedy
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
Ann Landers
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“They can because they think they can.”
Virgil
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
Carl Sagan
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.”
Bertrand Russell
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”
George Eliot
“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”
Henry David Thoreau
“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.”
Richard Dawkins
“It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.”
Fred Woodworth
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
Maya Angelou
“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.”
Cass Canfield
“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.”
Napoleon Bonaparte