Infinity » Quotes http://blog.cyragon.com where it all begins Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:26:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Quote of the day http://blog.cyragon.com/2007/12/quote-of-the-day-3/ http://blog.cyragon.com/2007/12/quote-of-the-day-3/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:28:15 +0000 Ben Farmer http://blog.cyragon.com/?p=45 It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- C. S. Lewis

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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

- George Washington (1732-1799)

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” 
- Seneca

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
- GK Chesterton, Everlasting Man, 1925

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
- GK Chesterton, The Speaker, 12/15/00

“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

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Quote for today:

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?”
-George Eliot

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“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ”
- Benjamin Franklin

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. ”
- Benjamin Franklin

“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.”
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

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