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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. - Dante Alighieri

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. - Dante Alighieri

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. - Poul Anderson

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. -- Saint Augustine

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. - John Barrymore's dying words

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. - David Belasco

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. - Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims"

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One faces the future with one's past. - Pearl Buck

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path. - Sir Winston Churchill on the Mexican War

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Sir Winston Churchill

We have won the war! - Sir Winston Churchill, upon hearing of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. - Sir Winston Churchill

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.... - Carl von Clausewitz

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past. - Max DePree, Leadership Jazz

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Gandhi

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert A. Heinlein

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. - Robert A. Heinlein ("The Notebooks of Lazarus Long")

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.- Robert A. Heinlein ("The Puppet Masters", 1951)

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze new problems, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.- Robert A. Heinlein ("Time Enough For Love")

One treats others with courtesy not because they are gentlemen or gentlewomen, but because you are - G. Henrichs

If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance - John Andrew Holmes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James

Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. - Juvenal

Forgiveness does not mean ingoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Chapter 3: The Shocking Alternative

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell. — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcom: Chiefly on Prayer"

A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death. — C.S. Lewis, Miracles, Chapter 6: "Answers to Misgivings"

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment. - C.S. Lewis

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln. Note: I have reason to believe that Mark Twain may have said this. Of course, he may have borrowed it from Lincoln...

It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects. - Martin Luther, Commentary on the Romans, I.i.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.- Abraham Maslow

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough. -- Mechtild of Madgeburg

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. - Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

Those who have the will and, especially the moral, intellectual, and material means to force their will upon others take the lead over the others and command them. - Giovanni Mosca

If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature. - Origen

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, "1984", 1947.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance, because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness. - Blaise Pascal, Pensees

I'd rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me. - General George Patton

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. - Irene Peter

The mind is a flame to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. - Plutarch

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

If something looks implausible, it probably is. Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum. - Fred Reed

Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? - Will Rogers

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. - Theodore Roethke

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. - Dennis Roth

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. - Bertrand Russell

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, "Life of Reason"

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. - George Santayana

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Barnard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Barnard Shaw

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you clearly don't understand the situation. - Seen on slashdot.org

No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending. - Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. - Socrates, quoted in Plato's Apology

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. - Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers. - Socrates

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. - E.B. White

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? - Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol