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When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.
All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.
Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.
[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
[Muhammad] said, "...fight everyone in the way of God and kill those who disbelieve in God..."
Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.