"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.“
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
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"Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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