-"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]]
+"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." \\
+-- [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1276812-there-are-many-causes-that-i-am-prepared-to-die | Gandhi]]
-"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]]
+"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." \\
+-- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again
-"God has no religion" -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] again
+When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\
+— [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?)
-When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]]
+"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
-On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth,
-a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply,
-"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] :-)
+"I only know one race: the human one." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
-"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
-"I only know one race: the human one." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
-"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
+"Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman | Richard Feynman]]
-"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
+"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
+No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
+The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
+of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
+if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
+— Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe (1786)
-"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
+"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
-"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
+"Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. \\
+That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes." \\
+— [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]]
-"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+"Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\
+— Plato
-"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” \\
+— [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
-"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]]
-Looking at a mass of things for sale: "How many things I have no need of!" -- [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism
+"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. \\
+All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life,
+lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\
+the individual towards freedom. \\
+— [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]]
+
+"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa | Mother Teresa of Calcutta]]
+
+"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock | Spock]], Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
+
+"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. | Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
+
+"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+
+"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+
+"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
+— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
+
+"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\
+Hack away at the unessential." \\
+— [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]]
+
+On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\
+a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, \\
+"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling
+
+Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
+— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
+
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+1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\
+2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\
+— [[http://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]]
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