Quotable quotes

[Rand]

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.​

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Joseph Addison, 1672-1719
English writer, critic, and statesman


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[opinterph]

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

― Banksy

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

― Søren Kierkegaard

 

[Rand]

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An honest heart being the first blessing,
a knowing head is the second.

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
Third President of the United States
Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785



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[opinterph]

“Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.”

― Dalai Lama

 

[opinterph]

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

― Abraham Lincoln (Collected Works, Volume 8, Page 361)

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.”

― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

 

[opinterph]

“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”

― Immanuel Kant

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“To be a pacifist in the face of evil is to be complicit with evil.”

― J. Adam Snyder

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

― Albert Schweitzer

 

[pornoboy]

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[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.”

― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

 

[Alistair]

“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?”


-Abraham Verghese / Cutting for Stone