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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others. – Romain Rolland

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same. – Daniel Knode

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Dont borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. – Lord Burleigh

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional. – Donald Berwick

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