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"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

Beecher, Henry Ward on law and lawyers
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"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."

Stirner, Max on law and lawyers
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it."

Gracian, Baltasar on evil    Share

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."

Brodsky, Joseph on evil
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"Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls."

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti on evil    Share

"Of two evils, choose neither."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on evil
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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

Addison, Joseph on family
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"In a broken nest there are few whole eggs."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Durant, William J. on family
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"Family is the most important thing in the world."

Diana, Princess of Wales on family
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink."

Mises, Ludwig Von on inflation    Share

"Inflation is determined by money supply growth."

Bootle, Roger on inflation    Share

"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on truth
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on faces    Share

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

Allen, James on work
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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence."

Butler, Samuel on vice
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"I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices."

Twain, Mark on vice
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"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."

Mill, John Stuart on eccentricity
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"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul"

Bible on soul
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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."

Cohen, Leonard on despair    Share

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy."

Wordsworth, William on childhood    Share

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on growth
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Abbey, Edward on patriotism
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Jefferson, Thomas on attitude
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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on rebellion
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"Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy."

Jefferson, Thomas on travel
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"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead..."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

Jefferson, Thomas on conquest
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"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Jefferson, Thomas on control
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