"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm."

- Marcus Aurelius

He found out the hard way. His son killed him. Goes to show you that it is sometimes difficult to determine who your friends are.

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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it."

- Will Rogers

"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."

- Isaac Asimov

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free."

- Clarence S. Darrow

"I fight fire with fire. You shouldn't treat a crazy religious cult with kid gloves."

- Ian Plimer, Melbourne Univ. Prof. of Geology, in reference to legal action challenging the existence of Noah's Ark

"Freedom always entails danger."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"There IS life, love and friendship.... after $cientology."

- said by a former Scientologist

"...a strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, or self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Against human nature one cannot legislate. One can only try to educate it, and it is a slow process with only a distant hope of success."

- Bernard Bernstein

"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy."

- Carl Sagan

"Taking fun as simply fun
and earnestness in earnest
shows how thoroughly thou none
of the two discernest."

- Kumbel