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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

Joseph Addison / Essayist
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller Poet

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Henry Miller Writer

Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Activist

That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

Miles Davis Musician

Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

Gerrard Winstanley Political Figure

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

Johnny Ramone Guitarist

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