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I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God,
eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind
will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny
is in trouble and reminders that its structure
is as brittle as its surface is hard.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
- William Allen White
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
- Helen Keller
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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