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Education

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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Aristotle

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Freedom

2010-09-06T14:03:00.000-07:00

The god who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Thomas Jefferson

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Friedrich Hayek

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Ronald Reagan

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Karl Raimund Popper

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

War

2010-09-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Montesquieu

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

Laws are silent in times of war.

Cicero

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here."

Jerry Seinfeld

Love

2010-09-04T13:33:00.000-07:00

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Laozi

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

Terence

Government

2010-09-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Adam Smith

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Ayn Rand

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald Ford

Government has no other end but the preservation of property.

John Locke

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Ronald Reagan

The dead govern the living.

Auguste Comte

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Quentin Tarantino

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Plato

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Karl Raimund Popper

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Isaac Newton

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David Hume

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Quentin Tarantino

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Quentin Tarantino (born in 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

Quentin Tarantino

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Quentin Tarantino

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Quentin Tarantino

I steal from every movie ever made.

Quentin Tarantino

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Quentin Tarantino

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Quentin Tarantino

Plato

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Plato (428 - 347BC) was a Greek philosopher.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Plato

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

Winston Churchill

2010-09-01T14:52:00.017-07:00

Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874 - 1965) was a British politician and writer, prime minister of the United Kingdom and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

William James

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William James (1842 - 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist that developed the philosophy of pragmatism.

Truth is what works.

William James

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayist and poet.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Will Smith

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Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. (born in 1968) is an American film and television actor.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Will Smith

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Smith

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Smith

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Will Smith

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

René Descartes

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René Descartes (1596 - 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

René Descartes

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

René Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

René Descartes

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

René Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

René Descartes

I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes

Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 - 2004) was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Ronald Reagan

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Ronald Reagan

Ovid

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Ovid (43BC - AD17) was a Roman poet.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Ovid

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Ovid

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Ovid

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish-born novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde

Nicolaus Copernicus

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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) was a polish astronomer, proponent of the theory that the Sun, and not the Earth, is at rest in the center of the Universe.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Nicolaus Copernicus

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Nicolaus Copernicus

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born in 1918) is a South African activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who became the first black president of South Africa.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

Voltaire

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François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, essayist, and philosopher.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was the third president of the United States and the author of the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

The god who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Thomas Jefferson

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Aquinas

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Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), sometimes called the Angelic Doctor and the Prince of Scholastics, was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Thomas Aquinas

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Thomas Aquinas

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Thomas Aquinas

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Thomas Aquinas

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

Terence

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Terence (190 - 159 BC) was a Roman playwright born in Carthage.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Terence

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

Terence

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Terence

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

Terence

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Terence

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

Sun Tzu

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Sun Tzu (544 BC - 496 BC) was a Chinese philosopher, author of "The Art of War," an influential ancient book on military strategy.

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 to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.

Sun Tzu

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Sun Tzu

Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

Sun Tzu

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

Sun Tzu

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.

Sun Tzu

The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Sun Tzu

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Sun Tzu

Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

Sun Tzu

Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Sun Tzu

Sophocles

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Sophocles (496 - 406 BC) was one of the greatest tragic dramatists of Athens, in the ancient Greece.

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Sophocles

Time eases all things.

Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man.

Sophocles

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Saint Augustine of Hippo

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Saint Augustine (354 - 430), Bishop of Hippo, in Algeria, was a philosopher and theologian.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.