Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Sometimes to keep it together you have got to leave it alone. ~Don Henley
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
#quotes #leland-stanford #industry

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism

Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
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The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. ~Jay Leno
#quotes #jay-leno #government

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
#quotes #pema-chodron #love #inspiration

A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #carpe-diem

He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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