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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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Frederick Douglas
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Joseph Addison
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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Christopher Darlington Morley
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
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Sam James Ervin, Jr.
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
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Theodore Roosevelt, sign posted at his grave site
Spend and be spent.
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Herodotus
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Baltasar Gracian
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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