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The French Revolution gave us three ... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas ... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content. — Daniel Barenboim

You are afraid." Leif challenged.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Then prove it."
I opened my mouth, but no sound came out.
Finally, I said, "I hate you."
Leif smiled. "The feeling is mutual — Maria V. Snyder

What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies, and those who support them are doing just that ... Because they die individually of disease and not disaster, [radio host] Neal Boortz and those who ape him in office and out, approve their deaths, all 45,000 of them - a year - in America. Remind me again, who are the terrorists? — Keith Olbermann

A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you're in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are. — John C. Maxwell

Each man is a little war. — Frank Herbert

When the two men sat down to supper, Jan Myers cracked some of his favorite jokes about the clergy and their dogma. Though Zeno remembered that he used to find such pleasantries amusing, they seemed rather flat to him now; nevertheless...he said to himself that at a time when religion was leading to savagery, the rudimentary skepticism of this good fellow certainly had its value. For himself, however, being more advanced in methods of negating assumptions, at first, in order to see if thereafter something positive can be reaffirmed, and of breaking down a whole in order to watch the parts recompose themselves on another plane or in some other fashion, he no longer felt able to laugh at those easy jests. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories. — Geraldine McCaughrean

A true friend to me is someone that comes over for dinner, and hangs out with my daughter, someone I party with on a regular basis. — Gilbert Melendez

We are all alone in this world; even in a crowd. — Kenneth Eade