QUOTES TO THINK ABOUT
LIFE
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
US science fiction author (1928 - 1982)
- We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)
- French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
- If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
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US Secretary of Defense (1932 - )
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
US poet (1819 - 1892)
- HISTORY & SOCIETY
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)
- The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
- Larry Hardiman
- In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
- Mogens Jallberg