FAVORITE QUOTATIONS

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"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing" - Jessamyn West

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Curtis Bok

"Children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye? Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye." - Jesus

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up." - Mark Twain

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand

"Democracy can mean different things in different countries. In Russia, democracy is who shouts the loudest. In the U.S., it's who has the most money." - Vladimir Putin

"Nobody on their deathbed said, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my computer.'" - Dani Bunten


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