                          Great Quotes
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"To be yourself and no one  but yourself in world that is  trying
its  best night and day to make you everyone else, is the hardest
battle any man can fight and never stop fighting."

                                                 -- e.e. cummings

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

                                                      -- Socrates

"Every  person who has risen above  the common level has received
two educations: the  first from  his teachers;  the second,  more
personal and important, from himself."

                                                        -- Gibbon

"Art is a human activity  having for its purpos the  transmission
to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have ari-
sen."

                                                       -- Tolstoy

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."

                                                         -- Bacon

"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan
of  life for him has  no need of any  other faculty than the ape-
like one of imitation.  He who chooses his  plan for himself  em-
ploys all his faculties."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"If the teachers of mankind are to be cognizant of all that  they
ought to know, everything must be free to be written and publish-
ed without restraint."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"Pygmies placed  on the  shoulders of  giants see  more than  the
giants themselves."

                                                         -- Lucan

"The  usefulmess of an opinion is  itself matter of opinion -- as
disputable, as open  to discussion, and  requiring discussion  as
much as the opinion itself."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
His reasons may be good, and no  one may be able to refute  them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite
side, if he does  not so much  as know what they  are, he has  no
ground for preferring either opinion."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"Men  are not more zealous for truth  than they often are for er-
ror, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social pen-
alties  will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of ei-
ther."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"Not  to know what happened before one was born is always to be a
child."

                                                        -- Cicero

"If  society lets any considerable number  of its members grow up
mere children, incapable of being acted on by rational  consider-
ation  of distant  motives, society has  itself to  blame for the
consequences."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"An injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere."

                                       -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing in education is more astonishing as the amount of ignor-
ance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

                                                   -- Henry Adams

"Truth gains more even by the  errors of one who, with due  study
and  preparation, thinks for himself than by the true opinions of
those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to
think."

                                              -- John Stuart Mill

"...  there is only one  liberal study -- that  which gives a man
his liberty."

                                                        -- Seneca

"I cannot throw over arguments I formerly accepted merely because
of  what has come  ... If we  can't find better  ones, I will not
give way to you, not even if the power of the multitude were  far
greater  than it  now is, to  frighten us like  children with its
threats of confiscation, bonds, and death."

                                                      -- Socrates


ith its
threats of confiscat