"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

Age, Courage, Individuality

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"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man."

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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

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"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

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"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."

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"With soap baptism is a good thing."

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"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."

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"I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty."

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