Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

I started collecting these decades ago. Amazing how apt many are and from people who have been dead decades, if not centuries.

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. -Frank Wilhoit

They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery. -They Live (movie), 1989

We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury

The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray. -- Robert G. Ingersoll

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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"The abandonment of the republic is a matter of two steps: from being "the people" to "the governed," then "the policed.""

http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/06/09

"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side."

--Gandhi

I was reading up on Gandhi, amongst other things, for a presentation in my art class tomorrow and thought this quote was rather good.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
- Joan Gussow