"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
― Bertrand Russell
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― Bertrand Russell
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- "In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
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- "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Great souls suffer in silence."― Friedrich Schiller
- "I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don’t know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can’t think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I’m sure they’re there, but I’d have to think really hard to recall them."― Scott Baio