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There are quite a few quotes that I love, by a variety of people. It's refreshing to be reading along and find that someone out there thinks the same way I do and had the ability to sum it up so well. Here are a few of my favorites, what are yours?

My respect for individuals is a respect for their right to be, to live, to explore their own potentialities, to find their own salvation, to achieve what dignity they can. It is not an indiscriminate enthusiasm for the general level of human performance. Great talent and the high virtues are thinly dispersed and no intensity of democratic sentiment will change that fact.
D. Sutton

The world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years
Mark Twain

Some go through life getting free rides; others pay full fare and something extra to take care of the free riders. Some of the free riders are those who make an art of 'knowing the angles', others are rascals, others lazy; but some really need help and could not ride unless they rode free. I don't spend much time worrying about the free riders; but I am a full-fare man, first and last
D. Sutton

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man bit one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Victor Frankl


The sentimentalist fallacy is to shed tears ove abstract justice and generosity, beauty, etc., and never know these qualities when you meet them on the street, because the circumstances make them vulgar.
William James

Do this, do not do this; otherwise I will throw you into prison. Say that, and yours ceases to be a government over rational beings. Nay, rather, say, Zeus has ordained, do this; if you do not so, you will be punished, you will suffer injury. What kind of injury? No injury but that of not doing what you ought;you willdestry the man of fidelity in you, the man of honor, the man of decent behaiour. You need not look for greater injuries than these.
Epictetus