'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
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Important Quotes......
From Theo Spark at 07:44
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