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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris
One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having. — Mark Twain
A quiet conscience makes one so serene. — Lord Byron
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher… — Edwin Markham
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average. — J. Michael Bailey
There's only one truth about war: people die. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage. — Sun Tzu
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than… — Sun Tzu
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. — Winston Churchill
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. — John Keats
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness… — Alexander Hamilton
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if… — Aberjhani
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another. — Aberjhani
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive… — Aberjhani
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people… — Aberjhani
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to… — Herbert Spencer
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science… — Heinz Pagels
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade… — Charles Darwin
We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is… — George Bernard Shaw
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without… — John Dewey

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