Howard Zinn

Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?

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Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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Aesop

Outside show is a poor substitution for inner worth.

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Joan Borysenko

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

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Benjamin Franklin

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

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Derek Bethune

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

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Francis Quarles

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.

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Dale Carnegie

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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Marcel Proust

And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying.

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Richard Milhous Nixon

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)

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