"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away." – Ellen Glasgow

"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?" – William Greider

"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets." – Martin Feldstein

"Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism – no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families." – Evan Bayh

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"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater." – Albert Einstein

"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful." – Aristotle

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein

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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another" – Plato

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother" – Voltaire

"That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." – Dr. Carl Sagan

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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." – Henry David Thoreau

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." – Robert McCloskey

"If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress." – Will Rogers

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!" – Dr. Seuss

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"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way." – Fisher Ames

"The first thing I remember about the world…is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life." – Malcolm Muggeridge

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"Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them – these are the best guides for man" – Albert Einstein

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy …” – Francis Bacon, Sr.

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." – Amos Bronson Alcott

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"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment." – Henry David Thoreau

"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can’t think of any other place I’d rather die than here." – Harold Brodkey

"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand." – William Dampier

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"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." – Albert Einstein

"Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies." – Aristotle

"Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television." – Woody Allen

"Art is not a thing; it is a way." – Elbert Hubbard

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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” – Joyce A. Myers

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.” – Victor Hugo

“And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.” – Donald Cargill

“Belief creates the actual fact.” – William James

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"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." – William Arthur Ward

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." – Jimmy Dean

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain

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“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.” – Robert H. Jackson

“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” – Thomas Paine

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors” – Thomas Jefferson

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“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” – Mohandas Gandhi

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“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” – John F. Kennedy

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.” – Steve Jobs

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

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"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed." – Steve Jobs

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." – Winston Churchill

"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism." – John C. Calhoun

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!" – Morris West

"He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage." – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"A forest bird never wants a cage." – Henrik Ibsen

"Cage’s Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control." – Earle Brown

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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic" – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one." – Rush Limbaugh

"The culture war is between the winners and those who think they’re losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them." – Rush Limbaugh

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“I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.” – George Galloway

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain

“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” – Voltaire

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James A. Baldwin

“It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.” – Arthur C. Clarke

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“Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.” – Michael Medved

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” – Robert Kennedy

“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’” – Sydney J. Harris

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"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk." – William Arthur Ward

"After tea it’s back to painting – a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often." – Gustav Klimt

"Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life." – Kay Granger

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“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.” – Lewis Thomas

“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.” – Oliver Goldsmith

“It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.” – Wavy Gravy

“Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.” – Sylvia Earle

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