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Willa Cather. Photo: Britannica.com

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- Willa Cather

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
- Walt Whitman

Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
- G. K. Chesterton

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
- Mother Teresa

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
- Pearl Bailey

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- Cicero

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner


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