Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country?
Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.
Socrates: How so, Plato?
Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a
sculptor.
Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have
no need to be reminded.
Plato: That is correct.
Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Margaret Sanger

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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Δε γίνεται να εμποδίσεις τη δημιουργία μαρτύρων. Το μόνο που μπορεί κανείς να κάνει είναι να κοιτάξει να περιορίσει τον αριθμό τους. Αν ήξερα κάποιους Χριστιανούς τον καιρό του Νέρωνα, θα προσπαθούσα να τους σώσω απ' τα λιοντάρια, εξηγώντας τους πως είναι προτιμότερο να ζει κανείς με την πίστη του, παρά να πεθαίνει γι' αυτήν.

Graham Greene

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Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change

Benny Bellamacina

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Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

Graham Greene

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Sometimes we choose the road we follow.
And sometimes the road chooses us.

Richie Singh

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Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

Patrick O'Brian

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We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Rae Armantrout

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Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

Don DeLillo

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