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"What you don't know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible." Abraham Maslow
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"There are no desperate situations, only desperate people."-Heinz Guderian, German general (1888-1954)
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"American politics features a particularly boorish animal called a 'culture warrior,' who imagines that he is working to save Christendom from secularism, Islam, and sexual deviancy, but who, in his own life, doesn't know how to use a fork properly, doesn't chew with his mouth closed, and cannot be personally charming in social settings.

How does this happen? Like Keynesian economists who believe the whole has nothing to do with the parts, the culture warriors imagine that they can steer the culture while being personally piggish, pathetic, and crude -- as if the court of taste and manners will never judge them personally but they are entitled to judge, and to restore and save, the whole of society." - Jeffrey Tucker

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"We did these things, and they were glorious. We changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame."- Rep. Wilson on funding the Mujhadeen resistance to the Russian invasion.

"Wisdom is not additive; it's maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."- Heinlein

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."- Heinlein

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."- Asimov

"[Creationists] make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."- Asimov

"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?"- Churchill

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"I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation-building," George W. Bush, second presidential debate, 2000
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It's a bit long, but:

"Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. In the modern state there are very few sites where this is possible. The only others that come readily to my mind require belief in an omnipotent creator as a condition for membership. It would seem the most obvious thing in the world to say that the reason why the market is not an efficient solution to libraries is because the market has no use for a library. But it seems we need, right now, to keep re-stating the obvious. There aren’t many institutions left that fit so precisely Keynes’ definition of things that no one else but the state is willing to take on. Nor can the experience of library life be recreated online. It’s not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal."

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Just read this on a book about modern German history:
The people have lost the confidence of the government. The government has decided to dissolve the people, and to appoint another one.
— Bertolt Brecht, German poet, in response to a merciless crackdown by the Soviets against pro-democracy protesters in East Germany, 1953.
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"You can't sleep with all the women int he world, but one must make the effort." - Jorge Amado, brazilian writer.

“I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.”
― Machado de Assis
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"The purpose of work should be the common good" - Alfred Krupp
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He stole that one unless he is a time traveller who got back in time 60 years before he was born.


Another suggestion:
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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. (George Orwell)
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Call me stupid, but I don't understand the current quote. Is it saying forgiveness is good or bad? On the one hand, hope is ussually supposed to be good; on the other hand, you can't change the past so there's no point in trying.
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"Whatever you are, be a Good one".

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“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill
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"Reality is often stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be believable." -- Mark Twain

"Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, something stronger, more beautiful." -- Harry Dresden, White Night

"Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." -- Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Imagine what medieval peasants would say if you could explain to them the stuff that people waste most of their time worrying about these days." -- David Morgan-Mar

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." —Robert Wilensky, University of California
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"I was never crazy about Hitler. If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. That's what they do so well: they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can't win. You show how crazy they are." -- Mel Brooks
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That looks familiar. Oh wait. :wink:
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"If the real world isn't kind to new comers, than it's because of the people in it have chosen to be unkind. You and your future coworkers have the ability to change that. Over half the world's population is under 30 years old. The shear number of you creates a gigantic opportunity to change the work place as we know it. Shake it up. Be the ones to throw opens the shutters and let a little fresh air in. And while you're at it, make the work place a more civil place to be. You have the power to influence change in so many ways. Make kindness a priority, not a blurred line." - Peyton Manning, 2014
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Did someone forget to put the year of the current authors death? According to this webpage its 1989.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_Barnett_Cocks/
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"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory."

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"Politics is not like the nursery. In politics, obedience and support are the same."
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"War, children, is just a shot away."
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"When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When his ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do."
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"Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone amongst God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of Death.."
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