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  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757...
• It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. -- David Hume
• Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -- David Hume (1711-1776)
• The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them. -- David Gerrold
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
• Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind
  it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease....
• Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature must produce a man.
  -- David Hume, "Essays: The Epicurean," 15...
• Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
  Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -- Hans Margoliu...