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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

- Edith Hamilton | Government and Rule Quotes

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

- Edith Hamilton | Thinking and Thought Quotes

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

- Edith Hamilton | Faith and Unity Quotes

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work

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