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  • #1
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Secrecy begets tyranny.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #3
    “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
    Bob Samples

  • #4
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #5
    Tom Robbins
    “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #6
    George Washington
    “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
    George Washington

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #9
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #11
    Wendelin Van Draanen
    “...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”
    Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

  • #12
    Anne Frank
    “Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #13
    Aristotle
    “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
    Aristotle

  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”
    Winston Churchill

  • #15
    Plato
    “There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
    Plato

  • #16
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #17
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #18
    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    Voltaire

  • #19
    Audrey Hepburn
    “It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #21
    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    Aristotle

  • #22
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #23
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #24
    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #25
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #26
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    Robert Ingersoll

  • #27
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #28
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #29
    Abraham Lincoln
    “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #30
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill



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