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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, First inaugural address
N.B.: "Fear itself." See also H. D. Thoreau.
2 "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
- Tacitus, "Agricola"
3 History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through to avoid.
- Livy
4t's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Archie Griffin
5 Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
6 "Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens."
- Edward Young, "Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 292."
7 "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
- John Wesley
8 The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
- James A. Michener, "attributed"
9 "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
- John Burroughs
10 "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
- Michel de Montaigne
11 "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
12 "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
- Richard Harding Davis
13 You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner, "The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm",
14 "I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
15 "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
- Medgar Evers
16 "It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions."
- Voltaire, "Philosophical Dictionary", 1764
17 "Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN."
- Anon.
18 "Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
- Mark Twain
19 "The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door."
- Anon.
20 "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Theresa
21 "Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."
- Boris Marshalov
22 "I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
- John Glenn
23 "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
- Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
24 "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
- Winston Churchill
25 "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton
26 "And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others"
- Sir Thomas More
27 "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed."
- Alexis Carrel, "Reflections on Life"
28 "Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking."
- Vincent McNabb, "God's Way of Mercy"
29 "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
30 Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
- Muhammad Ali
31 "The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."
- Anthony D'Angelo
32 "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."- Nelson Henderson
33 "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." - Samuel Johnson
34 "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
- Albert Camus
35 "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
36 "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
37 "I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
- Edith Cavell, Last words, October 12, 1915
38 "Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals."
- Henry Spencer
39 "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
- Aldous Huxley
40 "Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
- Andrew Brown
41 "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
- William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride"
42"I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them."
- Isaac Asimov
43"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
44 "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
- George Orwell, "A Collection of Essays"
45 "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
- Henry Miller, "The Wisdom of the Heart"
46 "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
- G. K. Chesterton, "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 190847