"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has

 intended us to forgo their use."

  --  Galileo Galilei

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them

pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
--Winston Churchill

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness
sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.'
 - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." 
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence.  It biases the judgment." 
A Study in Scarlet

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

--William J. Durant, American Historian, Essayist

"Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as  you ought. "
author unknown

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I
meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. -Ralph Waldo
Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.- James Joyce

A smart man learns from his mistakes
A wise man learns from others mistakes
A stupid man learns from no one's mistakes.
Unknown

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.- unknown

"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent."
Seraphina

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This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen

without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Sir Isaac Newton, The Principia

Growing old is mandatory- Growing up is rare- Wanda Zippler

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength- Eric Hoffer

The most important thing is to never stop questioning.- Albert Einstein

What's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. -Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.- Derek Bok

The best way to predict the future is to create it.- Unknown

Character is doing the right thing when no one else is watching -J.C.Watts

     When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when  Hitler attacked the Catholics,
I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned.  And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was
not a member of the  unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and  there was nobody left to be concerned.

Martin Niemoeller

Congressional Record, 14, October 1968, page 31636

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but

 because by it I see everything else.- C.S. Lewis

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Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic won't help.- unknown

 The more you sweat in training the less you bleed in combat.-unknown