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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such… — Charles Caleb Colton
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets… — Andre Gide
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same… — Albert Einstein
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a… — Adolf Hitler
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but… — Elizabeth Bowen
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift
I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our… — George Raveling
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation. — Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies. — D. H. Lawrence
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it… — Henry David Thoreau
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men… — Khalil Gibran
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that… — Winston Churchill
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it… — Aristotle
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. — Thornton Wilder
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit. — William Dean Howells
Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. — Tom Stoppard
Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight… — Martin Luther
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… — Theodore Dreiser
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. — Elbert Hubbard
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then… — George Carlin

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