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• There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Communication, Heart

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• My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.

  Paul Auster

  Cutting, Wife, Lines

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• With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.

  Joe Walsh

  Mother, Technology, Abortion

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• Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?

  Scott Adams

  Science, Reality, Odds

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Progress And Change, Creating

  "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

  Voltaire

  Exercise, Rights, Law

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• Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.

  Andrew Cohen

  Life, Taken, Years

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• Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

  Voltaire

  Destiny, Law, People

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• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

  Ted Turner

  Humble, Humility, Perfect

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Men, People, Liberty

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• Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?

  Larry King

  Thinking, Drug, Important

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• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Government, Libertarian Party, People

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• If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.

  Tip O'Neill

  Golf, Clubs, Way

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• It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Mind

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• Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

  John Adams

  Religious, Mean, World

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.254

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• How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Politics, Different

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Ordinary

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.461

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• Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.

  John Adams

  Religious, Book, Law

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.3, Penguin

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Struggle, Mad

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.

  John Piper

  Baby, Doctors, Goal

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• The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Heart, Blessing

  Thomas Watson (1794). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness”, p.233

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• He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

  James Allen

  Strong, Negative, Self Talk

  James Allen (2007). “The Path to Prosperity”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A wonderful world would be a place where we can openly, honestly share things and it's done the same way in return. Do you suppose we're going to get that world anytime soon? I don't expect it. So I am practical. I work to have people close to me whom I can openly and honestly share with. And from that base of safety and trust, I can extend my sharing out into the world.

  John Morton

  People, Safety, Done

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• People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  Voltaire

  Pain, Philosophical, Character

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• It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

  Francis Bacon

  Mean, Self, Fancy

  1620 Novum Organum.

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