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Friday, February 29th, 2008Integrity has no need for rules
Famous Quotes - Albert Camus
Integrity has no need for rules
Famous Quotes - Albert Camus
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
- Paul Fussell
Opportunity is missed by most people because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry
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The difference between myth and science is the difference between divine inspiration of ‘unaided reason’ on the one hand and theories developed in observational contact with the real world on the other. [It is] the difference between the belief in prophets and critical thinking, between Credo quia absurdum [I believe because it is absurd-Tertullian.] and De omnibus est dubitandum [Everything should be questioned-Descartes.]. To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly large regions of space and time is science.
- H. Alfv?n
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: March 4, 1865 - Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- Abraham Lincoln
Principles
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: Last Public Address, Apr 11, 1865
- Abraham Lincoln
Defense
Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: February 22, 1842 - Temperance Address of Springfield, Illinois
- Abraham Lincoln
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
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You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die Or when You can only decide how you’re going to live Now
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