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Cicero
Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis)
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James Thurber
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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Tamil Proverb
Great anger is more destructive than the sword
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Sir Winston Churchill
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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Bob Marley
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.
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William Pitt
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
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Henry M. Wriston
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
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Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
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Hellen Keller
I am only one; but still I am one. I may not be able to do everything, but still I can do something.
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John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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