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"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: principle, style
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
— Stephen W. Hawking

tags: ignorance, knowledge
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"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
— Stephen W. Hawking (A Brief History of Time)

tags: philosophy, science
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. "
— René Descartes

tags: doubt, truth
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"Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness."
— David Hume

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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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— Immanuel Kant

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"For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first."
— Immanuel Kant

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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
— Immanuel Kant

tags: contentment, poverty, riches
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"Shikin Haramitsu DaiKo Myo"
— Masaaki Hatsumi (Essence of Ninjutsu)

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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
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"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
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"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master."
— George Washington

tags: government, liberty
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
— Benjamin Franklin

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: insanity
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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: humor
165 people liked it

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: democracy, freedom, government
154 people liked it

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life
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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
— Patrick Henry

tags: politics
30 people liked it

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation
254 people liked it

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, destruction, federal, financial, loans, money, philosophy, political, politics, power, science, society, violence, war
133 people liked it

"Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: insperational, jefferson, quotes, thomas
68 people liked it

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it"
— Thomas Jefferson

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"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics
131 people liked it

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
— Thomas Jefferson

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"In your life I am a star, and this took great effort. In my life you're a star and all it took was a smile."
— Edward R. Grey

tags: friendships, love, relationships, romance
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"well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it."
— Jim Lewis

tags: humor, relationships
1 person liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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