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What better way to start a quotes page, than with, you guessed it:
Quotes!
Thinking
is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
~Josiah Royce (1855-1916)
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie
the Pooh (timeless)
So jump in,
agree or disagree, and hopefully, enjoy!
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are
consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is
not a coincidence.
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E pluribus unum. (Out of many, one.)
- Motto for the Seal of the United States. Adopted 20 June 1782,
recommended by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson,
10 Aug. 1776, and proposed by Swiss artist Pierre Eugene du
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes
have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, English novelist, in
her book Felix Holt (1819-1880)
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be
persuaded to say it.
-James Russell Lowell, American poet and
essayist (1819-1891)
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The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
-William
Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (1564-1616)
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence,
with no evidence, or against evidence.
-Tyron
Edwards, American theologian best known for
compiling the "New Dictionary of Thoughts" (1809-1894)
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If every just man that now pines with
want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which
lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess,
Nature’s full blessings would be well-dispensed In unsuperfluous
even proportion.
-John
Milton,
poet,
prose polemicist, civil servant
(1608-1674)
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He who opens a school door closes a
prison.
-Victor
Hugo, poet, novelist, dramatist (1802-1885)
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To use violence is to already be
defeated.
-Chinese
Proverb
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels
responsible.
-George
Burns, comedian, actor, writer
(January 20, 1896 –
March 9, 1996)
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We are not afraid
to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas,
alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is
afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open
market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-John
F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
-George Washington, the first President of the United States
(1732-1799)
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what
is right in America.
-Henry Clay, nineteenth-century American statesman and orator
(1777-1852)
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In
our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions
on the next seven generations.
-Iroquois Nation Maxim
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It
is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes
and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in
judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity
of character
-The Reverend Dr. Dale Turner (1917-2006)
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No
society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can
expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
-Margaret
Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the
system of a regular government.
-Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832)
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The Hollow Men: Between the
idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls
the Shadow.
-T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)
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If
they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to
worry about the answers.
-Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )
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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the
history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious
prejudice.
-Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
-George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist
(December 16, 1863, Madrid - September 26, 1952, Rome)
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved
it.
-Baltasar Gracian, philosopher and writer (1601-1658)
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968)
(Editor's Note: Oops! A repeat; must have MLK, Jr. on my mind).
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.
-Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
German Proverb
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Ignorance more frequently begets
confidence than does knowledge.
-Charles Darwin naturalist and author (1809-1882)
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human
misery rather than avenge it?
-Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-born British historian and essayist (1795-1881)
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
-James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and
diplomat (1819-1891)
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Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-Frank William Leahy, football coach (1908-1973)
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
-Voltaire,
French Philosopher and Writer (1694-1778)
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Any fool can try to defend his mistakes--and most fools do--but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.
-The Rev. Lawrence G. Lovasik, quote from The Hidden
Power of Kindness
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln, f(1809-1865)
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
-George Orwell (1903-1950)
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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
-Desmond Tutu (1931-)
Cleric, Civil Rights Activist, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984
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This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
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There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.
-Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 / Popularized by Mark Twain
(1835-1901)
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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
-Turkish proverb
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Patience is also a form of action.
-Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground.
-Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor and orator (1817-1895)
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Often war is waged only in order to show valor, thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, "War is an
evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.
-Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
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Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
-Lord Acton, historian (1834-1902)
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
-Samuel Johnson (1707-1784)
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively
what no one believes individually.
-Abba Eban (1915-2002)
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-Aldous Huxley,
novelist (1894-1963)
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
-Milan Kundera,
Franco-Czech writer (1929 - )
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
-Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-P.D. James, writer
(1920- )
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Statesman, Orator, Writer (106-43 BCE)
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
-John Stuart Mill (1806 -1873)
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Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
-Voltaire,
Author and Philosopher
(1694-1778)f
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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes.
-Cullen Hightower, salesman and writer
(1923-)
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt,
32nd President of the United States (January 30, 1882-April 12, 1945)f
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The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
-Finley Peter Dunne,
Journalist (1867-1936)
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
-Henry Kissinger,
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 -)
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut,
Dutch-American Computer Scientist and Educator (1953-1994)
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire,
French philosopher and writer (1694-1778)f
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead, American Cultural Anthropologist (1901-1978)
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
-Horace, Odes
Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC-8 BC)
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
-Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth US president (1858-1919)
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
-Dudley Field Malone
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People often see peace as the simple absence of war, but it is instead the result of courageous actions taken to initiate a dialogue between civilizations.
-Marianne Pearl, author of A Might Heart:
The Brave Life and Death of my Husband, Danny Pearl
Editor's Note: Oops! Another repeat...Loved the book!
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Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
-Frederick Moore Vinson, Speech at Arlington National Cemetery
on Memorial Day, 1945 (1890-1953)
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But I have learned that in the world of mass media, "truth" is not based on clarity, but on repetition.
-Tariq Ramadan, Islamic Scholar
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The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
- Jane Sellman
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I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
-Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot same them from fools.
-John Muir (1838-1914)
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The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power,
not the increase of it.
-Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the U.S.,
Nobel
Peace Prize winner (1856-1924)
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)f
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What we do in life echoes in eternity.
-Magnus Maximus,
Roman Emperor (383-388 A.D.)
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May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.
-An Irish blessing
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.f
-Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)
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When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
-Russian proverb
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,
Philosopher (1844-1900)
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
-Fannie Hurst, writer (1889-1968)
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Goethe (1749-1832)
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
-Norman Cousins, author and editor
(1915-1990)
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I and the public know. What all schoolchildren learn. Those to whom evil is done. Do evil in return.
-W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
-Denides Dirot, French philosopher (1713–1784)
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As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-William O. Douglas,
Judge (1898-1980)
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When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes around the sun and that stars are millions upon millions of kilometers away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
-George Orwell, 1984
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
-Ashleigh Brilliant, writer (1933-)
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744)
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
-George Santayana,
Philosopher and Poet (1863-1952)
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.-Kahlil
Gibran, Sand and Foam (1883-1931)
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People often see peace as the simple absence of war, but it is instead the result of courageous actions taken to initiate a dialogue between civilizations.
-Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Live and Death
of my husband Danny Pearl
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Power in whatever hands is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
-Edmund Burke, British political writer of the 18th century,
Excerpt from "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol"
Composed in early 1777 when Burke was a member of Parliament from Bristol.
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
-Socrates, philosopher (469-399 BCE)
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
-Marshall McLuhan,
cultural historian and communications theorist (1911-1980)
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When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
-Thomas Jefferson, third US president,
architect and author (1743-1826)f
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No man is an Island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
-John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking
to those who do not wish to hear it.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)
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America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter, and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.-Abraham Lincoln,
16th U.S. President (1809-1865)
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Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
-William Shakespeare, playwright and poet in
"Measure Fore Measure"
Act II, Scene II (1564-1616)
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
-Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
-John Morley, statesman and writer (1838-1923)
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
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The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others.
-H. L. Mencken
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..prejudice, the great labor-saving device that allows the formation of tightly held opinions without facts to support them.
-Stuart S. Light, writer in Santa Barbara. quote from his commentary in the Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2004
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be
governed by men worse than themselves.
-Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
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I say it took guts, which we need more of to break through the culture of reluctance that extends far beyond OSHA and sits like some choking toxic cloud over efforts to protect people while they work.
-Dave Johnson, Editor of Industrial Safely & Hygiene News on the
New York Times December 21, 2003 controversial publication of a photo of the lifeless body of Patrick Walters being hauled from a collapsed trench near Cincinnati, Ohio. Times reporter David Barstow wrote a three part series on OSHA's "culture of reluctance," a study of how rarely employers are prosecuted for willful violations causing the death of an
employee.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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I think it would be a good idea.
-Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
(1869-1948)
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When a bit of sunshine hits ye,
after passing of a cloud,
When a fit of laughter gits ye,
And ye'r spine is feeling proud,
Don't forget to up and fling it
At a soul that's feelin' blue,
For the minit that ye sling it
It's a boomerang to you.
-Captain Jack, Former sea captain and a patient at the
County Farm in Los Angeles in 1931
Editor's note: This poem touched me deeply. The County Farm is
still helping the less fortunate! For more information, go to
http://www.rancho.org/
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"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
-A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
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"Let us be divinely dissatisfied as long as we have a wealth of creeds and poverty of deeds."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been."
-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
-Bertrand Russell
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Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
-Kin Hubbard, humorist (1868-1930)
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No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
-Niels Bohr,
physicist (1885-1962)
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.
-Georges Braque
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Always saddle your own horse!
-Connie D. Reeves, Texas Horseback Riding Teacher; Cowgirl Hall of
Fame (1902-2003)
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
-Italian Proverb
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
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Can the meaning of a precise moment
appear all at once? It need hardly be pointed out: only the
succession of moments can become clear. One moment has meaning only
in its relation to other moments. We are at each instance only
fragments deprived of meaning if we do not relate these fragments to
other fragments. How can we refer to this completed whole?
-Georges Bataille, The Tears of Eros (Tr. Peter Connor)
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-Hanlon's Razor
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
-Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
-Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-Franklin P. Jones, businessman (1887-1929)
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If you start by yelling, you tend to forfeit the chance to persuade.
-Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
-Corrie Ten Boom
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It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.
-Fred Rogers
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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
-Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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We shall not 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. Elliot
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We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the Earth together as brothers.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
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To err is human: To forgive, canine.
-Anonymous
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What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
Men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,
For whatever happens to the beasts,
Soon happens to man.
All things are connected.
-Chief Seattle,
Suquamish Indian Tribe
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
-Paulo Freire, educator
(1921-1997)
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You only live once-but if you work it right, once is enough.
-Joe E. Lewis
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The further away you get from the source, the more black and white it gets.
-Lars Moberg
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-Jack London
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Literature exists for the sake of the people--to refresh the weary, to console the sad, to hearten the dull and downcast, to increase man's interest in the world, his joy of living and his sympathy in all sorts and conditions of man.
-Judge Martin Manton, defending the novel Ulysses against its banning in 1934
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
-Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
-Henry James
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up!" someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My what a great opportunity!
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
-Mark Yost
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
-Thomas Jefferson
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
-Sam Rayburn
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
-Garrison Keillor, radio host and author (1942- )
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Some people live and learn, others just live.
-Clarence "Gink" Wasson
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The future struggles against being mastered.
-Latin Proverb
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Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
-Ann Douglas
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
-Edna Ferber
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Then he began to think of all the things Christopher Robin would want to tell him when he came back from wherever he was going to, and how muddling it would be for a Bear of Very Little Brain to try and get them right in his mind. "So perhaps," he said sadly to himself, "Christopher Robin won't tell me any more," and he wondered if being a Faithful Knight meant that you just went on being faithful without being told things.
-Winnie the Pooh
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Smile! The fresh air is good for your teeth!
-Jack Bogut, KDKA Pittsburgh radio announcer, circa late 1960s-early 1970s
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
-Milan Kunderat
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The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, "Wrong jungle!"
-Stephen R. Covey
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Reign endless, Rose! For fair you are. Nor heaven reserves a fairer thing.
-Herman Melville,
"A Rose or Two"
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-Melody Beattie as quoted in Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-Winnie the Pooh
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
-Albert Einstein
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
-Will Rogers
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
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You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky
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Character-the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life-is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
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An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. After all, a good manager needs to listen at least as much as he needs to talk.
-Lee Iacocca
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We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.
-James Van Praagh
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)
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Each relationship you have with another person reflects the relationship you have with yourself.
-Alice Deville
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Success is peace of mind obtained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.
-John Wooden, former UCLA basketball coach
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As if you could kill time, without injuring eternity.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
-Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (1808-1889)
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-Rabindranath Tagore,
poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer,
Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
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