"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."

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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."

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"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

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"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."

"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."

"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."