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Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
[Goethe]

Go on, be an individualist. Somebody has to go first.
[Jon]

Earth is the lunatic asylum of the universe.
[Jon]

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
[PC Hodgell]

Privacy is history.
[Jon]

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve, nor will he receive, either.
[Benjamin Franklin]

Arguing science with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how carefully you plan your moves, the pigeon is just going to shit all over the board and strut around thinking it won.
[Jon]

Respect people, not beliefs.
[Jon]

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.
[Nuremberg Trials, 1945]

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
[Thucydides]

We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.
[Martin Luther King]

Your weirdness will make you stronger. Your dark side will keep you whole. Your vulnerability will connect you to the rest of our suffering world. Your creativity will set you free. There’s nothing wrong with you.
[Andréa Balt]

We make ourselves miserable by first closing ourselves off from reality and then collecting this and that in an attempt to make ourselves happy by possessing happiness. But happiness is not something I have, it is something I myself want to be. Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over my body.
[Roger Corless The Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree]

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
[Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)]

If you're comfortable when you're alone, then you're never really lonely.
[Jon]

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
[Samuel Hazo]

We live at the edge of the miraculous.
[Henry Miller]

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
[Virgil]

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
[Carl Sagan]

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
[Aesop]

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.
[Howard Thurman]

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It was there all the time.
[Anna Freud]

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
[Confucius]

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
[Nietzsche]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
[Eleanor Roosevelt]

Everything you can imagine is real.
[Picasso]

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
[Abraham Lincoln]

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
[Thomas Edison]

What lies behind ourselves and what lies ahead of ourselves are small matters compared to what lies within ourselves.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
[Brendan Gill]

People only see what they are prepared to see.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]