"The first point of courtesy must always be truth."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.”
“It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.179, Transaction Publishers
“Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.”
“The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.”
“In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.”
“But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.”

Source : Nicole Mones (2007). “Lost in Translation”, p.251, Delta
“The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.”
“An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.”

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