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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
  I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet....
• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog.
  But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed....
• Speak little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. -- Trench
• Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand.
• People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand.
  -- Woolsey-Swanson Rule...
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941...
• You would rather blame yourself than others, but you don't waste much time doing either when things go wrong.
• I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.