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Tuesday 17 March 2009

Important Quotes......

'Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.' - Justice Louis D. Brandeis

'Genius does what it must; talent does what it can.' - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

'The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.' - Thomas Carlyle

'Man is what he believes.' - Anton Chekhov

'As always, victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.' - Count Ciano

'A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.' - Arthur C. Clarke

'The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes,
knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.'
- James Fennimore Cooper

'Fraud and falsehood dread examination. Truth invites it.' - Thomas Cooper

'Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.' - Marie Curie

'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintained their neutrality.' - Dante

'He who allows oppression shares the crime.' - Erasmus Darwin

'Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, we readily believe.' - Demosthenes (350BC)

'A state is better governed if it has but few laws, and those laws strictly enforced.' - Rene Descarte

'Those in power want only to perpetuate it.' - William O. Douglas

'The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.' - Albert Einstein

'Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.' - Albert Einstein

'No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

'It is not the employer who pays the wages---he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.' - Henry Ford

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