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“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.”
— John Locke
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
— Socrates
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
— Voltaire
“Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.”
— Noam Chomsky
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
— Pablo Picasso