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2012 November 16
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"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it." |
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'
That is all ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know." |
"So every bondman in his own hand bear
The power to cancel his captivity." |
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2012 November 15
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"Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew." |
"In the long vista of the years to roll,
Let me not see my country's honor fade;
Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!
Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade." |
"We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?" |
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2012 November 14
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"Lying is done with words and also with silence." |
"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." |
"It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government." |
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2012 November 13
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"Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself." |
"I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man." |
"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls." |
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2012 November 12
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"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." |
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." |
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.
All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.
(Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.)" |
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