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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality."	James Joyce
"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."	James Russel Lowell
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."	Joe Moore
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."	John Locke
"It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it."	John Fellows Akers
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."	John K. Hutchens
"I have not yet begun to fight!"	John Paul Jones
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."	Joseph Joubert
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."	Kathleen Norris
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."	Lord Melbourne
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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Franz Kafka	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F. Hansen
George Burton Adams	George Foreman	George Herbert Walker Bush
Gerald R. Ford	Golda Meir	Gurdjieff
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James Russel Lowell	Joe Moore	John Locke
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J. Martin Kohe	Kathleen Norris	Leonardo da Vinci
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Max Lucado
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Napolean Bonaparte	Omar Khayyám	Pan Ku
Paulo Freire	Paxton Blair	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Rita Mae Brown	Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Butler	Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Tao Le Ching	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher	T. Lehrer
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton	William Lloyd Garrison