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We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. - P. J. O'Rourke

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government." -Donald Trump (When Irony Defines Itself)

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. - John Adams

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. - Hypatia

" must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -John Adams

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. - Lawrence Kohlberg

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." -Margaret Mead

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. - John Locke

“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”
―Alain Locke

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." -Elbert Hubbard

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. - Phillip Roth

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." -Bruce Lee

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. - Peter Steele

if you have nothing nice to say to someone, then say nothing : my mother

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. - Patrick Stewart

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. - Frederic Chopin

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." -Leonardo da Vinci

A thought is an idea in transit. - Pythagoras

"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose." -Bo Bennett

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. - Andrew Jackson

"The happiness of society is the end of government." -John Adams

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. - Tom Ford

"I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are." -Jay-Z

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell

what you are seeking, is seeking you- Rumi

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things. - Michael Moore

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." - JFK

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent." -Abraham Lincoln

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." -Sun Tzu

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. - Oskar Schindler

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." -Robert H. Schuller

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. - Victor Hugo

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." -Victor Hugo

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
-George S. Patton

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein

"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple." -Paulo Coelho

Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid. - Anton Szandor LaVey

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
-Jim Morrison

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. - Immanuel Kant

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." -Malcolm X

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. - Alfred Kinsey

"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats." -Sue Grafton

"Pleasure therefore, or delight, is the appearance or sense of good; and molestation or displeasure, the appearance or sense of evil. And consequently all appetite, desire, and love is accompanied with some delight more or less; and all hatred and aversion with more or less displeasure and offence."

~ Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). - Ayn Rand

"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution." -Huey Newton

I'll do almost anything for a laugh. - Melissa McCarthy

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' " -Norman Ralph Augustine

Faith is never identical with piety. - Karl Barth

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse. - Rod McKuen

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides." -Lao Tzu

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. - Jane Haddam

"Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect." -Thomas S. Monson

There is no death. There is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness. - quote from the film "Poltergeist"

“Consciousness is the agency that collapses the wave of a quantum object, which exists in potentia, making it an immanent particle in the world of manifestation.”
― Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
―William Bradford

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -Isaac Asimov

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. - John Lennon

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." -Oscar Levant

A house divided against itself cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier." -Tom Stoppard

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. - Herbert Hoover

"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
-J. E. Hoover

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Hellen Keller

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." -Michael Jordan

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. - Vladimir Lenin

"Diligence is the mother of good luck." -Benjamin Franklin

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me. - Kurt Cobain

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." -Bruce Lee

Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet. -
Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche lyrics to "Anybody Listening?")

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."
-Ron White

You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. - Rob Zombie

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill

Face your fears in the light of day and you can see what's ahead. Face your fears in the dark and you will see nothing. - Jake Jaxson

" If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." -Dale Carnegie

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. - George Washington

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. - Muhammad Ali

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." -Marcus Garvey

Our true nationality is mankind. - H. G. Wells

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness." -Mark Kennedy

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. - Marcus Aurelius

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
-John Perry Barlow

You cannot step into the same river twice. - Heraclitus

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes." -Oprah Winfrey

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