"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."

Kennedy, Robert F. on
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"If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."

Alder, Alfred on truth
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior."

Bunuel, Luis on god   

"God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word."

Auden, W. H. on god
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"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."

Brookner, Anita on god
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"I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events."

Burroughs, William S. on god
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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."

Weil, Simone on god
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"Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness."

James, William on god   

"Mass is resistance to motion."

Parslow, Eric on physics   

"Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society."

Parslow, Eric on society
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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!"

Parslow, Eric on right and rightness   

"Race is a lazy mind's tool for identifying culture."

Parslow, Eric on racism   

"There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will."

Hill, Napoleon on integrity
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

Hoffer, Eric on hatred
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on hatred
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"Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues."

Ezra, Iba on hatred
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"Do not fear mistakes -- there are none."

Davis, Miles on mistakes
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"Jazz is the art of skipping obvious convention while still following it."

Parslow, Eric on jazz   

"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Unamuno, Miguel De on argument   

"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

Updike, John on sex
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"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

Jefferson, Thomas on economy and economics
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"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

Jefferson, Thomas on education
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"The owner of a residence is the one who lives in it. Landlords and rent are manufactured tools of oppression."

Parslow, Eric on   

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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"Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty."

Jefferson, Thomas on law and lawyers   

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on liberty
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual."

Jefferson, Thomas on lies and lying
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"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

Jefferson, Thomas on anger
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"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

Jefferson, Thomas on power
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."

Jefferson, Thomas on questions
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"One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than the distance from 3 million to 5 million."

Parslow, Eric on wealth   

"I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves."

Updike, John on taste   

"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."

Waitley, Denis on excellence   

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

Waitley, Denis on imagination
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"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."

Waitley, Denis on integrity
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"You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits."

Waitley, Denis on integrity   

"Chase your passion, not your pension."

Waitley, Denis on passion
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"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."

Waitley, Denis on procrastination
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