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Sir Winston Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
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John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.
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Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Sir Philip Sidney
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
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Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Lord Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.
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Dr. Henry Gibbons
The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.
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Anna Mary Robertson Moses
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
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Bertrand Russell
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted.
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Michael Faraday
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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