03-13-2008, 02:27 PM
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"Cynics build no bridges; they make no discoveries; no gaps
are spanned by them. Cynics may pride themselves in being realistic in their approach, but progress and the onward march of civilization demand an inspiration and motivation that cynicism never affords. If we want progress, we must take the forward look." --Paul L. McKay |
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03-14-2008, 02:30 PM
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. --------------- A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. --------------- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. --------------- A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. --------------- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. --------------- After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. --------------- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. --------------- All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have. --------------- All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. --------------- All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. --------------- All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. --------------- All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. |
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03-14-2008, 02:56 PM
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Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.
Good luck beats early rising. The believer is happy, the doubter is wise. You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon. It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. Praise the young and they will flourish. A trade not properly learned is an enemy. Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat. When the liquor was gone the fun was gone. Time is a great story teller. A friend's eye is a good mirror. Even a small thorn causes festering. A drink precedes a story. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. 
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03-14-2008, 06:33 PM
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"I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before
one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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03-15-2008, 01:50 PM
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. --------------- As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. --------------- Elevate those guns a little lower. --------------- Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. --------------- Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. --------------- It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. --------------- It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. --------------- It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States --------------- Never take counsel of your fears. --------------- No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. --------------- One man with courage makes a majority. --------------- Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. --------------- Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. |
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03-16-2008, 11:19 AM
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. --------------- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. --------------- As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. --------------- Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. --------------- Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. --------------- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. --------------- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. --------------- It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. --------------- It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. --------------- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. --------------- Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. --------------- Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. --------------- Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. |
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