Today Quotes
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No man is free who is not master of himself.Epictetus
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.Thomas Jefferson
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.Bhagavad Gita
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.Aristotle
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.Albert Schweitzer
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.Thomas S. Szasz