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"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."	Saint Augustine
"That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth."	Edmund Burke
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."	Benjamin Franklin
"There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition."	Bertrand Russell
"Music is what feelings sound like."	Author Unknown
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart."	Author Unknown
"History is herstory, too."	Author Unknown
"History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make."	Author Unknown
"You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less."	Author Unknown
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."	Author Unknown
"I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here."	Author Unknown
"Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball."	Author Unknown
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."	Francis Bacon
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."	Dave Barry
"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too."	Isaac Asimov
"Sanity is madness put to good uses."	George Santayana
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."	George Santayana
"History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: "All hope abandon ye who enter here."	George Bernard Shaw
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