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May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold...

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tze

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmond Burke

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs 15:1

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. General Colin Powell

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Alfred Alder

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy...