The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
The love of one?s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic,