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Our houses are such unwieldy property
that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
You can chain me, you can torture me,
you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
I have unbounded compassion for myself
at all times and under all circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I forgive myself completely
for having created stories of suffering.
I forgive myself for all
my angers, resentments, jealousies,
and all the other emotions of suffering.
I have unbounded compassion for myself
at all times and under all circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
- The Bible
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
I predict future happiness for Americans
if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think,
and that's the time when they most need to think.
- William J. Clinton
I put a piece of paper under my pillow,
and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a fact often observed,
that men have written good verses
under the inspiration of passion,
who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
Every fact is related on one side to sensation,
and, on the other, to morals.
The game of thought is, on the appearance
of one of these two sides,
to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
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
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
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