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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in… — Carlos Castaneda
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being… — Warren G. Bennis
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every… — Joseph Sobran
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her… — Seneca the Younger
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a… — Frederic Bastiat
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that… — Frederic Bastiat
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament,… — Frank Chodorov
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything… — Harry Browne
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority… — William E. Simon
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place… — Irving Kristol
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're… — Lawrence Reed
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter… — Margaret Halsey
Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the… — Wallace D. Wattles
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features… — Ellsworth Huntington
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which… — Johannes Kepler
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender… — Thomas Huxley
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa… — Bertrand Russell
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a… — Bertrand Russell
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed… — Richard P. Feynman
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.… — Victor Hugo

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