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I trust that God won't give me problems I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
– Mother Theresa
Men and Countries behave wisely when all other alternatives have been exhausted.
– Abba Eban
Forgiveness: Giving Up All Hope for a Better Past
– catherineblountfdn.org
Resentment does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored, than on the object upon which it is poured.
Some people say that Liberty is a means to other Political ends. I say that Liberty is the highest political end.
– Lord Acton
Free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theatre and causing a panic.
– Oliver Wendel Holmes, 1917 upholding the conviction under the Espionage Act of Charles Schenck for printing a pamphlet denouncing the WWI Draft as a violation of Involuntary Servitude under the 13th Amendment. (A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, p.366)
From each according their abilities, to each according to their needs.
– Louis Jean Joseph Blanc (1811-1882)
Property is Theft! Property is Freedom! Property is impossible!
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) (Property as the "means of production," rather than personal possesions, which are allowed)
I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.
– Dave Bradley, the IBM engineer who invented Ctrl/Alt/Del, on a PC Pioneers panel with Bill Gates. Bill was not amused
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
– Robert Wilensky