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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Paine
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was
the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Charles Dickens
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He who gets used to believing without proof has slipped out of his natural humanness.
Ibn Sina / Avicenna
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have
courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
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In my view, someone who exploits the god they worship for personal gain knows no limits to doing evil.
Richard Dawkins
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Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
J.K. Rowling
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary,
nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
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There are many ways to kill a person.
By stabbing with a dagger, by taking away bread,
by not treating their illness, by condemning to misery,
by making them work until they burst, by driving to
suicide, by sending to war.
Only the first is forbidden by our State.
B.Brecht
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
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We are like books. Most people only see our cover,
the minority read only the introduction, many people
believe the critics. Few will know our content.
Émile Zola
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The ruler is the boat; the people are the water.
Water can carry the boat, but it can also overturn it.
Xunzi
29
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and
authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in
holding humanity in contempt, is like administering
medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
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We're almost at the end of October. Life is very
pleasant, although unfortunately there are so many
idiots around us.
Virginia Woolf
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The education of a child begins twenty years before
his birth, with the education of his parents.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Learn the science of art and the art of science.
Learn to see.
Realize that everything is connected to everything else.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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