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Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.

Samuel Johnson Life of Samuel Johnson

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln

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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.


Will Rogers

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

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As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.

H. L. Mencken (Henry Lewis)

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“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”

Charles F. Kettering

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“... We need the interruption of the night
To ease attention off when overtight,
To break our logic in too long a flight,
And ask us if our premises are right.”

Robert Frost's The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus.

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

Abraham Lincoln