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Useful Useless Quotations

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." -Mark Twain

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." -Woody Allen

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." -Will Rogers

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." -Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." -William Shakespeare

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -George Bernard Shaw

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race." -George Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -Samuel Johnson

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." -Ray Bradbury

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." -W. Somerset Maugham

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