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It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. ↗

— Aristotle

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It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears. ↗

— Lynn C. Tolson

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Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed? ↗

— Christopher Brennan

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :) ↗

— G.E.GRAVES

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Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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There are only two kinds of people we can call reasonable: either those who serve God with their whole heart because they know him, or those who search after him with all their heart because they do not know him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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Let the morrow bring on what it would, he thought, for it didn't exist. Only now could lay any claim to forever... ↗

— Tim Willocks

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All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... ↗

— Susan Cooper

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