Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

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You have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

The experience of many of us is not that 'insistence on sameness' jumps out unbidden and unwanted and makes our lives hard, but that 'insistence on sameness' is actually a way of adapting to a confusing and chaotic environment.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart

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