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| Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. |
Rudyard Kipling |
British (Indian-born) author (1865 - 1936) |
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| A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. |
Gustave Flaubert |
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880) |
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| Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
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| Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. |
Jonathan Winters |
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| You may delay, but time will not. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
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| Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. |
Eugene Ionesco |
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| Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
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| Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!" |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
English critic & poet (1772 - 1834) |
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| Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. |
African Proverb |
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| A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965) |
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| That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
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| Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. |
Kin Hubbard |
(1868 - 1930) |
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| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) |
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| You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. |
Charles Austin Beard |
historian |
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| Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
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| If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. |
Frank Herbert |
The Dosadi Experiment
US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) |
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| Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution? |
C. D. Tavares |
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| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. |
George Washington |
First president of US (1732 - 1799) |
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| Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. |
Ludwig Mises |
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| The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. |
Nick Nuessle |
1992 |
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| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
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| I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. |
John Burrough |
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| I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961) |
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| To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. |
Wendell Berry |
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| Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. |
Donella Meadows |
The Global Citizen |
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| O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. |
Saint Augustine |
Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) |
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| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
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| There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. |
Marshall McLuhan |
Canadian author, educator, & philosopher (1911 - 1980) |
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| Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. |
Euripides |
Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC) |
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| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
Soren Kierkegaard |
Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855) |
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| Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
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| We aim above the mark to hit the mark. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) |
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| A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. |
Richard Armour |
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| With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. |
Chinese proverb |
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| Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
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| The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
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| They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. |
Carl W. Buechner |
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| If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. |
Rotarian |
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| The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. |
Philip Caldwell |
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| Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. |
Ghandi |
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| From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. |
Herman Melville |
US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891) |
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| The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
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| Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
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| No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. |
William Blake |
English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827) |
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| Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. |
Herman Hesse |
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| The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. |
James Bryce |
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| Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. |
Jonathan Kozol |
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| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
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| Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. |
Josh Billings |
US Humorist (1818 - 1885) |
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| The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
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| Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. |
Charles Luckman |
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| What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. |
Swedish proverb |
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| Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. |
Yiddish proverb |
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| Who begins too much accomplishes little. |
German proverb |
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| Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) |
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| Good questions outrank easy answers. |
Paul A. Samuelson |
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| Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
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| My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus. |
The Lockhorns |
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| The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. |
Cousin Woodman |
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| There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. |
Lord Chesterfield |
(1694 - 1773) |
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| Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg. |
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Quotations by unknown authors |
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| Be sincere; be brief; be seated. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
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| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
Strength to Love, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) |
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| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. |
Vaclav Havel |
Czech dissident, dramatist, & politician (1936 - ) |
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| Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. |
From the last episode of "Cheers" |
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| We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. |
The Metro Para pledge |
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| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. |
William Feather |
(1908 - 1976) |
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| One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661) |
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| When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) |
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| A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. |
John Russell |
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| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
Jonathan Swift |
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) |
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. |
William Shakespeare |
Julius Caesar
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) |
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| California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. |
Fred Allen |
US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) |
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| If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. |
Seneca |
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? |
Count Oxenstierna |
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| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. |
Douglas Adams |
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) |
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| Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. |
Margaret Fuller |
US Transcendentalist author & editor (1810 - 1850) |
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| Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. |
Dr. Laurence J. Peter |
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? |
T. S. Eliot |
The Rock
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) |
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| Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. |
H. Jackson Browne |
P. S. I Love You |
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We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. |
T. S. Eliot |
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) |
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| Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
US architect (1869 - 1959) |
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| The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. |
Victor Hugo |
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885) |
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| To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. |
Anna Louise Strong |
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| It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. |
Arthur Calwell |
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| I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. |
Confucius |
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC) |
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| Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. |
William Hazlitt |
English essayist (1778 - 1830) |
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| Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. |
Herodotus |
Greek historian & traveler (484 BC - 430 BC) |
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| Politics is applesauce. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935) |
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| The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. |
Adolph Hitler |
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| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
Eric Hoffer |
(1902 - 1983) |
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| You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. |
Edward Keating |
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| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. |
Robert F. Kennedy |
US Democratic politician (1925 - 1968) |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) |
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| The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) |
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| Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. |
Walter Lippmann |
US author & journalist (1889 - 1974) |
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| I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704) |
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| Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
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