"Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe."

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Source : John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”

John Mason Brown

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“Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.”

Source : Norman Geisler, Frank Turek (2003). “Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“That is good which doth good.”
“The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.”
“I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.”
“I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.”

Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.10, Cosimo Classics
“Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.”

Source : "Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game" by Arthur M. Cox, (p. 10), 1982.
“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.”
“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”

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