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Best Kept Secrets of the Individual

'Not to go back, is somewhat to advance, And men must walk at least before they dance.' Alexander Pope

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.' George Bernard Shaw

 

'break new ground; do pioneering work'

 

'One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers.' Friedrich Nietzsche (but it doesn't mean that we should cop out)

 

'It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.' G. K. Chesterton

 

'We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!' Ernest Rutherford

 

'What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.' Eldridge Cleaver

 

Definition of a compromise: 'An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.' Lord Edward Cecil

 

'Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small indifferences than against fundamental ones' Sigmund Freud

 

'Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.' Rene Descartes

 

'A fly; Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.' Samuel Jackson

 

'Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.'

 

'Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.' James Baldwin

 

'When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.' Helder Camara

 

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