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Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
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We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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