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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-- Albert Einstein

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The new wave is not value-added, it's garbage-subtracted.
-- Esther Dyson

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

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If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
-- Walter Lippmann

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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)

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A corporation is not a person until Texas executes one!
-- Jim Hightower (Comment on Citizens United Supreme Court Case)

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr

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There is nothing permanent except change.
-- Heraclitus ((circa 535-475 BCE))

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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
-- Shirley Chisholm

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A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
-- Kenneth Burke

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis

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The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.
-- Elihu Root

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Genius is childhood recaptured at will.
-- Charles Baudelaire

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