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“I am an optimist, but I am an optimist who carries a raincoat.”
― Harold Wilson

“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.”
― Minor Myers Jr.

“Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable--and we believe they can do it again.”
― John F. Kennedy

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Information is not knowledge.”
― Albert Einstein

“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance”
― Albert Maysles

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.”
― Zen master Sent-t'san

“As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“The greater the enlightenment of a nation, the further it is from absolutism”
― Rossend Arús

“Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”
― Harry Truman