Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
--John G. Diefenbaker
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
--Sigmund Freud
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
--Jose Ortega Y Gasset [Meditations on Quixote] (1883-1955)
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
--Giordano Bruno
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no right way to do wrong.
--Anonymous
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
--Samuel Goldwyn
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
--Dandemis
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
--Ambrose Redmoon
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
--Mary Pickford
Why is it when we talk to God we're praying -- but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?
--Lily Tomlin
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
--Andrew Mathis
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
--Elbert Hubbard
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change.
--Carl Rogers
Love your enemies. It will make them crazy.
--Anonymous
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.
--Tom Landry
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
--Paul Valery
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.
--Isaac Newton
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
--R. Pirsig
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
--Andre Gide
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
--Boris Pasternak
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