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A Few Random Quotes

• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• “Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.” -- Bertrand Russell
  
  
• “You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.” -- Gottfried Müller
  
  
• “The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” -- Unknown
  
  
• “The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.” -- Paul Kurtz
  
  
• “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” -- Jack London
  
  
• “An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.” -- Cicero
  
  
• “The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.” -- William James
  
  
• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• “Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.” -- Bertolt Brecht
  
  

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