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Quote by Frances Wright
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and t

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. – Frances Wright

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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. – Frances Wright

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These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. – Frances Wright

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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. – Frances Wright

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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage theyve shown in making these elections so successful. – Bill Frist

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. – Nelson Mandela

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One man with courage is a majority. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. – Proverb

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Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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I dont want technology to take me so far that I dont have to use my brain anymore. Its like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. Its always got to be tactile, still organic. – Andrew Bird

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Pain is weakness leaving the body. – Anonymous

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