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I know how men in exile feed on dreams. (Quote by - Aeschylus)

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism. (Quote by - Rollo May)

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. (Quote by - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose. (Quote by - Barrows Dunham)

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. (Quote by - Frederick G. Banting)

Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like. (Quote by - David Kelley)

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. (Quote by - Belva Davis)

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. (Quote by - Errol Flynn)

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)

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