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Heine, Heinrich -- (Attributed, 1848)

2009-07-09T12:05:46Z

One should forgive one’s enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Alt trans: “One must forgive one’s enemies, but not before they are hanged.”

-- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet and critic

Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell -- Towne v. Eisner, 245 US 418, 425 (1918)

2009-07-09T12:03:40Z

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice

Hellman, Lillian -- The Watch on the Rhine (1941)

2009-07-09T12:02:54Z

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

-- Lillian Hellman (1906-1987) American playwright, screenwriter

LeBon, Gustave -- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1.1 (1895)

2009-07-09T12:01:20Z

In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

-- Gustave LeBon (1841-1931) German psychologist

Steinbeck, John -- Travels With Charley: In Search of America, Part 1 (1962)

2009-07-09T12:00:12Z

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer

Anthony, Susan B. -- “On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform” (1860)

2009-07-08T12:58:38Z

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

-- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American reformer

~Other -- Talmud

2009-07-08T12:57:46Z

Charity and loving-kindness are powerful defenses on the Day of Judgment.

-- Other Authors and Sources

Moffat, Steven -- Coupling, Ep. 2.9 “The Other End of the Line” (29 Oct 2001)

2009-07-08T12:56:50Z

JANE: I once went on holiday and pretended to be twins. It was amazing fun. I invented this mad, glamorous sister and went around really annoying everybody. And d’you know, I could get away with anything when I was my crazy twin Jane.

SALLY: But you’re Jane.

JANE: Kinda stuck. It’s a long story.

-- Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer

Shaw, George Bernard -- Major Barbara, Act III [Undershaft] (1905)

2009-07-08T12:54:27Z

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic

Lippmann, Walter -- A Preface to Morals (1929)

2009-07-08T12:53:02Z

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.Full text.

-- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist and author

Heller, Joseph -- Good as Gold (1976)

2009-07-07T12:28:50Z

Gold was opposed to segregation and equally opposed to integration. Certainly he did not believe that women or homosexuals should suffer persecution or discrimination. On the other hand, he was privately opposed to all equal rights amendments, for he certainly did not want members of either group associating with him on levels of equality or familiarity.

-- Joseph Heller (1923-1999) American novelist

Hellman, Lillian -- An Unfinished Woman (1969)

2009-07-07T12:27:16Z

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

-- Lillian Hellman (1906-1987) American playwright, screenwriter

Chesterfield (Lord) -- Letter to his son (8 Jan 1751)

2009-07-07T12:26:02Z

The day, if well employed, is long enough for everything.

-- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]

Gandhi, Mahatma -- Young India (23 Sep 1926)

2009-07-07T12:24:46Z

The golden rule of conduct, therefore, is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision. Conscience is not the same thing for all. Whilst, therefore, it is a good guide for individual conduct, imposition of that conduct upon all will be an insufferable interference with everybody’s freedom of conscience.

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-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian philosopher and nationalist [b. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]

Hazlitt, William -- Lectures on English Poets, #1 “On Poetry in General” (1818)

2009-07-07T12:22:53Z

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

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-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer