Quotes and Conundrums


"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

Carl W. Buechner


"When a government lasts a long while it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty."

Montesquieu


"He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them."

Confucius


"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."

Thomas Sowell


"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life."

Walter Pater


"Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits."

Mark Twain


"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard



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