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“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.”

Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia

“A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.”

Giving Memories Middle Conversation Tongue Combination Immortality Tied Good Memories Tongue Tied

Author:Mark Twain

“We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.”

Real Philosophy Evil House Modern Taught Taught Us Tainted Modern Philosophy

Book:The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

“Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.”

Men Property Gambling Gamble Gaming

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.”

“You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.”

Giving Use Return Seeds Riches Reap Giving To Others Power Of Visualization

Book:Riches Within Your Reach

Source: Riches Within Your Reach

“The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.”

Men Problem Age Function Bottom Dues Be Good Fallen Sanctions Moralist

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

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