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15 September, 2003 - Quotation of the day

"All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."

Thomas J. Watson

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14 September, 2003 - Quotation of the day

"Nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."

Thomas BOWDLER

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13 September, 2003 - Quotation of the day

"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent."

Bruno Jasienski

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11 September, 2003 - Quotation of the day

"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."

Benjamin Nathan CARDOZO

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10 September, 203 - Quotation of the day

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."

Paul Johnson

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