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| As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. |
J. B. Priestley |
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| Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. |
J. B. Priestley |
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| The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. |
Lydia Maria Child |
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| Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. |
Lydia Maria Child |
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| Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast. |
Pressbox Maxim |
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| I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. |
John Glenn |
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| There is still no cure for the common birthday. |
John Glenn |
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| When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. |
Marc Chagall |
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| Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. |
Marc Chagall |
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| In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. |
Marc Chagall |
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| In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. |
Martin Niemller |
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| First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me. |
Martin Niemller |
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| Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us. |
Thomas Nash |
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| The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. |
Novalis |
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| There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. |
Novalis |
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| Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. |
Agnes Repplier |
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| If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. |
Maya Angelou |
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| If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' |
Maya Angelou |
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| The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. |
Maya Angelou |
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| If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. |
Maya Angelou |
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| My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself. |
Maya Angelou |
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| I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.' |
Maya Angelou |
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| While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. |
Maya Angelou |
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| In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. |
Maya Angelou |
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| There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. |
Maya Angelou |
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| We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American. |
Maya Angelou |
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| For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. |
Maya Angelou |
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| I know why the caged bird sings. |
Maya Angelou |
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| The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. |
Maya Angelou |
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| History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. |
Maya Angelou |
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| Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. |
Howard Aiken |
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| Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. |
Howard Aiken |
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| Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. |
Howard Aiken |
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| Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. |
Howard Aiken |
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| Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy. |
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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| The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. |
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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| He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991) |
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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| I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks) |
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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| You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. |
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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| Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. |
Baruch Spinoza |
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| Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand. |
Baruch Spinoza |
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| If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. |
Baruch Spinoza |
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| This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness. |
Dalai Lama |
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| When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. |
Enrique Jardiel Poncela |
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| A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. |
David Brink |
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| Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children. |
Judith Pugh |
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| Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| Here's to you ,as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I am as good as you are, as bad as I am. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| Confessed faults are half mended. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| What may be done at any time will be done at no time. |
Scottish Proverb |
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| A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. |
Ingrid Bergman |
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| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. |
Ingrid Bergman |
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| Happiness is good health and a bad memory. |
Ingrid Bergman |
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| To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. |
Alexis Carrel |
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| I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. |
Michelangelo |
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| Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish. |
Ferdinand I |
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| Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| Nature provides exceptions to every rule. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. |
Margaret Fuller |
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| A camel is a horse designed by committee. |
Sir Alec Issigonis |
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| 'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. |
Robert Smith Surtees |
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| A Libertarian Movement slogan |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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