A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
--Max Frisch
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
--Emile Zola
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
--Albert Schweitzer
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
--Robert Frost
How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
--Anonymous
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice
--George Jackson
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
--John G. Diefenbaker
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.
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
--Dandemis
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
--Lucille S. Harper
The way up and the way down are the same.
--Dostoevsky
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
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
-- Carl Sagan
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
-- G.K. Chesterton
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- -Aldous Huxley
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
- -Salvador Dali
I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free.
- -Nikos Kazantzakis
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
-- John Steinbeck
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