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Seeing is quite different from knowing.

Albert Einstein

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself.

Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't dream it. Be it.

Richard O'Brien