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Christ believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. - Bertrand Russell
Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. - Lavater
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead. - James E. Day, Postmaster General
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. - W. Somerset Maugham
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine De Saintexupery (The Little Prince)
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody. - Denis Breeze
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, and Indian said simply Ours. - Vine Deloria, Jr.
