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- odi at amo, excrucior
(I hate, I love, it hurts)

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
-John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-John F. Kennedy

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
-Sir Winston Churchill

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."
-John Steinbeck