Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich NietzscheGet up, stand up! Stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight!
Bob MarleyHow many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques RousseauMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint AugustineI can find in my undergraduate classes bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl SaganThose who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
BuddhaDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthurEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil