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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone… — Denis Diderot
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student… — Richard P. Feynman
Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Unknown Author
Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe
A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than… — William Penn
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition. — Ida Tarbell
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we… — Joanna Macy
By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. — Martha Gellhorn
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of… — Lucille Clifton
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks… — Christopher Fry
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. — James Fenton
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave — Ezra Pound
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The finest poetry was first experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an… — Saul Bellow
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is… — Bob Dole

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