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βNo man ever believes that the bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.β --George Bernard Shaw
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βNo man ever believes that the bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.β --George Bernard Shaw
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βYou wouldnβt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.β --Eleanor Roosevelt
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βOpinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.β βPlato
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βThinking is difficult, thatβs why most people judge.β--Carl Jung
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd." --Bertrand Russel
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." --Benjamin Franklin
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"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg." --Hans Christian Andersen
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βThere is no happiness if the things we believe in are different than the things we do.β --Albert Camus
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βEvery time an old person dies, itβs like a library burns down.β --Alex Haley
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βA poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.β --Salman Rushdie
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βWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.β βLeo Tolstoy
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"Have no fear of perfection, youβll never reach it.β βSalvador Dali
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βThe point was never what we chose, the point is that we had the power to make a choice.β βGloria Steinem
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"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." --Gore Vidal
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"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar." --Abraham Lincoln
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"One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient." --Charles M. Blow
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"Liberty doesnβt work as well in practice as it does in speeches." --Will Rogers
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"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." --Maximilien Robespierre (attributed)
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"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." --Seneca
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βCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.β βWilliam James
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." --Aristotle
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βIt [the universe] doesnβt know the difference between big and small.β--Roger Penrose
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βAdvocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.β βBertrand Russell
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βBefore we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation.β βStephen Hawking
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"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience." --John Dewey
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"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." --George Orwell
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βThere are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world; those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.β βRay Goforth
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βA stupid manβs report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.β βBertrand Russell
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βSincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.β--Oswald Chambers