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"Science
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-Immanuel
Kant
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Quotes
Incredible ideas housed in a mere sentence. Giving direction,
meaning and answers to life...from some of the greatest thinkers,
movers, and shakers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- We
cannot always build the future for our youth, but
we can build our youth for the future.
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Eleanor
Roosevelt
- Friendship
with oneself is all-important, because without it
one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- I
think that somehow, we learn who we really are and
then live with that decision.
- You
gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through
this horror. I can take the next thing that comes
along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot
do.
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Benjamin
Franklin
- Drive
thy business or it will drive thee.
- Search
others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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John
F. Kennedy
- Liberty
without learning is always in peril; learning without
liberty is always in vain.
- There
are risks and costs to a program of action. But they
are far less than the long-range risks and costs of
comfortable inaction.
- Our
problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved
by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem
of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- Leadership
and learning are indispensable to each other.
(speech
prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination,
November 22, 1963)
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Robert
F. Kennedy
- Only
those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Abraham
Lincoln
- Nearly
all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
a man's character, give him power.
- My
experience has taught me that a man who has no vices
has damned few virtues.
- The
best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it
strictly.
- If
I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Thomas
Jefferson
- Were
it left to me to decide whether we should have a government
without newspapers, or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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Immanuel
Kant
- The
problem of organizing a state, however hard it may
seem, can be solved even for a race of devils, if
only they are intelligent. The problem is: "Given
a multitude of rational beings requiring universal
laws for their preservation, but each of whom is secretly
inclined to exempt himself from them, to establish
a constitution in such a way that, although their
private intentions conflict, they check each other,
with the result that their public conduct is the same
as if they had no such intentions."
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Mark Twain
- Of
all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Andy Rooney
- The
50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of
getting something right, there's a 90% probability
you'll get it wrong.
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Miscellaneous
(unknown
authors)
- When
you trust in human beings, you will likely often be
disappointed as individuals are imperfect by nature.
When you trust humanity, however, you will always
be rewarded.
- Good
judgement comes from experience. Experience comes
from bad judgement.
- May
the greatness of nations in the future be deemed not
by the numbers of people they have conquered and controlled,
but by the numbers of people they educated and empowered.
- Thomas
Malthus had everyone believing that the only way to
solve the hunger problem was by reducing the number
of people eating the pie. The Communists believed
that you could solve the problem by slicing the pie
in smaller, more equal pieces. Strange how few believed
that finding ways to make a bigger pie would solve
the problem.
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