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“If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”-Abraham Lincoln

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ it does not know how to use.”-Arthur Koestler

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage”.

Alexander Fraser Tytler – (1747 – 1813)

Professor of Universal History, and Greek and Roman Antiquities – University of Edinburgh

“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.”-Sophie’s World

“It is impossible to see the exact nature of a box when you are inside it.”-Wes “Scoop” Nisker

“I am a bit suspicious of any theory that says that the highest moral stage is one in which people talk like college professors.”-James Q Wilson

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