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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley Jr.1925–2008
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Broca’s Brain (1979), Chapter 5, “Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the End of Science” (p. 73)
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Second State of the Union Address
I don’t like to share my personal life…it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.
George Clooneyborn 1961
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858).
The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
Steve Martinborn 1945
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense by Thomas Paine.In context
There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylanborn 1941
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)