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- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest. - Gay
- How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world. - Shakespeare
- It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin proverb
- Change is good, but dollars are better.
- Anonymous
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
- Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
- A single fact can spoil a good argument.
- Anonymous
- The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
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