If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ernst Mayr

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Francis of Assisi

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Jeremy Taylor

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Worry is accepting responsibility God never intended you to have.

Alice Hocker

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

Soren Kierkegaard, Journals and

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

John F. Kerry

Packing is my pet hate.

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