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"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."	Franklin P. Adams
"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely."	Henry Brooks Adams
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."	Samuel Adams
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth."	Alfred Adler
"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains."	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."	Aesop
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."	Aesop
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."	Aesop
"Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense."	James Agee
"Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust."	John Fellows Akers
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."	Akhenaton
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."	Edward Albee
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."	Amos Bronson Alcott
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."	Lloyd Alexander
"The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence."	James Waddell Alexander, II
"Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers."	Rodan of Alexandria
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."	Woody Allen
"A belief is not true because it is useful."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Akhenaton	Alan Marshall Beck	Albert Camus
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Aldous Huxley	Aldous Leonard Huxley	Aleister Crowley
Alexander Hamilton	Alfred Adler	Alfred A. Montapert
Alfred Bernhard Nobel	Alicia Barnhart	Amos Bronson Alcott
Amy Hillyard Jensen	Anais Nin	Andrew Carnegie
André Gide	André Maurois	Anna James
Ann Landers	Anthony de Mello	Aristotle
Arnold H. Glasgow	Arsenio Hall	Augustus W. Hare
A. A. Hodge	A. Edward Newton	Barry Morris Goldwater
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Edmonds
Bernard Meltzer	Beth Knight	Billie Joe
Bill Chickering	Bob Dylan	Brad Bell
Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. J. Gupta
Calvin S. Hall	Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Dickens	Charles Anderson Dana	Charles Gordon
Charles Kingsley	Chief Joseph	Christopher Morley
Cindy Lew	Clarence Darrow	Clarence Seward Darrow
Claude T(homas) Bissell	Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson	Clement of Rome
Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius	Cullen Hightower
Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Daisy Bates	Danielle Donoho
Dave Tyson Gentry	David Hume	David Armistead
David Broder	David Duchovny	David Havard
David L(yle) Boren	Deepak K. Chopra	Dee W. Hock
Demosthenes	Deng Ming-Dao	Denis Diderot
Denis Johnston	Derek Curtis Bok	Dick Clark
Doug Larson	Douglas MacArthur	Doug Gwyn
Dr.	Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	Dr. Joyce
Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
D. A. Battista	Eddie Cantor	Edmund Burke
Edna Saint Vincent Millay	Edward Gibbon	Edward Albee
Edward Bedore	Edward H. Harriman	Edwin Holt Hughes
Elbert Hubbard	Elias Canetti	Elizabeth Barret Browning
Ephesians 4:25 Bible	Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm
Eric Lustbader	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eubie
Eustace Budgell	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Fran Lebowitz
Franklin P. Adams	Franklin P. Jones	Frank Herbert
Frank H. Crane	Frederick Douglass	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Galileo Galilei	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Braque	George Crabbe	George Gordon Byron
George Jean Nathan	George Lucas	Gerald R. Ford
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Giordano Bruno	Golda Meir
Goldie Hawn	Gustave Flaubert	Gérard Depardieu
Hannah Nixon	Hardy D. Jackson	Harry Emerson Fosdick
Helen Adams Keller	Henrik Ibsen	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Brooks Adams
Henry C. Blinn	Henry George	Henry James
Henry Louis Mencken	Hesiod	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Hubert H. Humphrey	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jameson Green	James Agee
James Arthur Baldwin	James Branch Cabell	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
James T. Farell	James T. Farrell	James Waddell Alexander, II
Jane Austen	Janina Atkins	Janos Arany
Jay Leno	Jean Genet	Jean "Iris" Murdoch
Jerome Klapka Jerome	Jesus	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jim	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Kaspar Lavater	Johathan Edwards	John Keats
John Locke	John Calvin	John Fellows Akers
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Harold	John le Carre
John Lilly	John L. Casteel	John L. Motley
John Masefield	John Mason Brown	John Phillips Marquand
John Stuart Mill	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Conrad
Joseph Joubert	Josh Billings	Julius Henry Marx
Junius	J(ames) William Fulbright	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
J. Lawton Collins	Kahlil Gibran	Kermit Eby
Kingman Brewster, Jr.	Lady Nancy Astor	Laertius Diogenes
Lao-Tzu	Lee C. Bollinger	Leonardo da Vinci
Lesley Conger	Lester R(obert) Bittel	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
Lillian Hellman	Lloyd Alexander	Lord Billingsley
Louis Kronenberger	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Madame Chiang
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margot Asquith
Mark Duffy	Marquis de Sade	Marsha Evans
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary MacCracken	Matthew Arnold	Max Born
Maya Angelou	May-lin Soong Chiang	Merry Browne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Michel Leiris	Miguel Cerbantes
Miguel de Cervantes	Milan Kundera	Mohammad
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides	Nancy Parker Brummett
Napolean Bonaparte	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Nicholson
Niels Henrik David Bohr	Nikki Giovanni	Nora Ephron
Og Mandino	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oscar Wilde	Oscar Hammerstein, II	Patrick Henry
Paul Aubuchon	Pearl Bailey	Peter Farquharson
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Phillip K. Dick	Pietro Aretino
Proverbs 3:5 Bible	Raisa M. Gorbachev	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rebecca West	Reinhold Niebuhr	Rena Harmon
Richard Buckminster Fuller	Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard Needham	Robert Browning	Robert Armstrong
Robert Brault	Robert Lee Frost	Rodan of Alexandria
Rod Hughes	Roger Ward Babson	Ron Garner
Ron Nesen	Rémy de Gourmont	Saint Augustine
Samuel Adams	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Butler
Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.	Sandy Farquhar	Shakti Gawain
Sherlock Holmes	Shirley Mount Hufstedler	Sigmund Freud
Simone de Beauvoir	Simon Cameron	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Isaac Newton	Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir John Lubbock	Sir Thomas Browne	Sir Walter Besant
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Smiley Blanton	Sri da Avabhas
Stanley Baldwin	Stephen King	Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Neill	Stephen R. Covey	Stephen Vincent Benét
Sydney J. Harris	Tao Le Ching	Terry Goodkind
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	The Dhammapada	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Hobbes	Thomas Mann	Thomas Merton
Thomas Mincher	Thomas Moore	Tom Stoppard
Truman Capote	T. S. Eliot	Umberto Eco
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	Vernon Howard	Victor Borge
Vincent McNabb	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Václav Havel	Walter Anderson	Walter Cronkite
Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis	William Blake
William Hazlitt	William James	William Jennings Bryan
William Shakespeare	William Ellery Channing	William Frank Buckley, Jr.
William R. Mattox, Jr.	William S. Gilbert	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	W. Kelly Griffith
(Arthur) Clive	(Arthur) Joyce	(David) Whittaker Chambers
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller