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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
- Thomas Jefferson

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends

Baltasar Gracian

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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage
Australian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries) (1934 - )

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“One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country”

Valerie Desmond

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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972)

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"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist."

Diogenes

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"Poverty consist in feeling poor."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
French novelist (1844 - 1924)