"There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind."

-- Theodore Parker

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“If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back”
“India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.”
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.
“How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?”
“Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.”
“What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?”
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

Source : Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.102, Ronin Publishing
“â€¦They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.”

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