FREETHINKING - APHORISMS AND PHRASES
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  • A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. (Napoleon)
  • The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
  • Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. (Napoleon)
  • The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. (Heinrich Heine)
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. (Mark Twain)
  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. (Henry David Thoreau)
  • Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)
  • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)
  • The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! (Dwight David Eisenhower)
  • Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Confucius)
  • However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? (Buddha)
  • New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (John Locke)
  • Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. (Stephen Leacock)
  • There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. (Arthur Conan Doyle)