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Floyd Abrams
"The notion that democracy would be advanced – saved, ‘restored’ – by limiting speech is nothing but a perversion of the English language."
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Chinua Achebe
"I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don’t want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don’t really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it’s better than sitting down and waiting for calamity."
"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy."
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Lord Acton
"Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end."
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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Abigail Smith Adams
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
"How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end."
* "These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman."
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Henry Adams
"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops."
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John Adams
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe."
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." —Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
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Joseph Addison
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is."
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Mortimer J. Adler
*"The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks."
"The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read."
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Aesop
"A crust eaten in peace is better than feasting at a banquet in anxiety."
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
"It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray."
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Spiro Agnew
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
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Omar Ahmad
[Founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)]
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
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Louisa May Alcott
* "If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
"Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations."
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
"When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
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Withrop Aldrich
"The price of power is responsibility for the public good."
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Buzz Aldrin
"Only by reaching beyond ourselves will we inspire generations to follow our pathways."
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Dante Alighieri
"A great flame follows a little spark."
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Samuel Alito
* "In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims." ~ Dissenting, Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207, 1229 (2011)
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James Allen
"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs"
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David V.A. Ambrose
"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
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Faisal Al Mutar [Writer, activist]
* "Many of them [the Western liberals] have betrayed us liberals in the Middle East and other Muslim countries, and sided with the Islamists against us."
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
"What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence."
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Greg Anderson
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
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Maya Angelou
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us."
"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel."
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Aristophanes
"Under every stone lurks a politician."
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Aristotle
"Education is the best provision for old age."
* "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."_____
Matthew Arnold
"Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration."
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."
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Arthur Ashe
“One important key to success is self-confidence. A key to self-confidence is preparation.”
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Isaac Asimov
* "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
* "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
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Fred Astaire
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
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St. Augustine of Hippo
"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
"Wherefore, though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing.... So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor."
[City of God]
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Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Therefore, guard accordingly."
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Aesop
"A crust eaten in peace is better than feasting at a banquet in anxiety."
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
"It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray."
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Spiro Agnew
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
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Omar Ahmad
[Founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)]
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Louisa May Alcott
* "If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
"Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations."
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
"When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
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Withrop Aldrich
"The price of power is responsibility for the public good."
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Buzz Aldrin
"Only by reaching beyond ourselves will we inspire generations to follow our pathways."
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Dante Alighieri
"A great flame follows a little spark."
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Samuel Alito
* "In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims." ~ Dissenting, Snyder v. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207, 1229 (2011)
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James Allen
"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs"
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David V.A. Ambrose
"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."
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Faisal Al Mutar [Writer, activist]
* "Many of them [the Western liberals] have betrayed us liberals in the Middle East and other Muslim countries, and sided with the Islamists against us."
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
"What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence."
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Greg Anderson
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
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Maya Angelou
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us."
"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel."
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Aristophanes
"Under every stone lurks a politician."
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Aristotle
"Education is the best provision for old age."
* "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."_____
Matthew Arnold
"Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration."
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."
_____
Arthur Ashe
“One important key to success is self-confidence. A key to self-confidence is preparation.”
_____
Isaac Asimov
* "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
* "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
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Fred Astaire
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
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St. Augustine of Hippo
"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
"Wherefore, though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing.... So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor."
[City of God]
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Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Therefore, guard accordingly."
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