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George Bernard Shaw
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
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Charles Dickens
Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'
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Homer, The Odyssey
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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Pliny the Elder
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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George S. Patton
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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John Denver
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.
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Danish proverb
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.
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W. Somerset Maugham
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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English Proverb
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
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John Adams
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
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