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When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.

Isaac Asimov

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Bernard M. Baruch

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

John Marshall Harlan

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Mark Twain

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

MUFFLED CADENCE The sound of shot. The roar of gun. Thy will be done blares the drum. The sudden shock. The news farflung. Thy will be done beats the drum. The hour of grief. The darkened sun. Thy will be done rolls the drum. The sound of shot. The grave begun. Thy will be done mourns the drum. ** by N Marshall Bertsch (N Marshall Bertsch is a Republican who was profoundly griefstricken by the assassination of John F Kennedy).

N Marshall Bertsch

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Wendell Phillips

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

Reinhold Niebuhr

And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

John Dryden

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.

Thomas Jefferson

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Frank Rizzo

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.

Marcus Valerius Martial

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure. •Mrs. Charles E. Cowman To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. •James Allen All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. •Jean-Paul Sartre No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. •Amar Gopal Bose He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. •Joseph Heller Failure is the tuition you pay for success. •Walter Brunell Success is never final, but failure can be. •Bill Parcells Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. •George Washington Carver I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time. •Michael Jordan Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. •Confucius The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. •Francis Picabia You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. •Walt Disney Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. •Rosalind Russell My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. •Abraham Lincoln Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. •George R. Tilton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. •George S. Patton There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. •Barbara Ward Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. •German Proverb A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. •J. Paul Getty Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. •Tony Richardson Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. •Louis Boone Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. •Jim Rohn There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. •Laurence J. Peter If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. •Robert H. Schuller Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. •Truman Capote There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. •Sri Swami Sivananda Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. •Joe Paterno Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. •Robert Louis Stevenson Failures are like skinned knees— painful, but superficial. •H. Ross Perot I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure— which is try to please everybody. •Herbert B. Swope Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. •Zig Ziglar A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.

Ludwig Von Mises

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Patrick Donovan

"A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station; "United we stand--divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation!

George P. Morris

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

William Godwin

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Mason Brown

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13 The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson, If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine

Charlotte Bronte

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