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• Emerson's Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  Having found them, we shall then hate them for it....
• The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity.
  To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion....
• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
  -- Benito Mussolini, speech, 1928...
• We can walk our road together, If our goals are all the same.
  We can run alone and free, If we pursue a different aim....
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...