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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

- Aristotle


You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at your self.

- Ethel Barrymore


A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

- Ingrid Bergman


The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

- Niels Bohr


Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

- Horace Bushnell


Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

- Winston Churchill


The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

- Joan Collins


Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

- Benjamin Disraeli


The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower


Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

- Ben Franklin


In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that anyone else could reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

- Mahatma Gandhi


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi


Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture.

- Allen Ginsburg


Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

- Thomas Jefferson


An apology is the superglue of life; it can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston


When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser


It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

- Sally Kempton


A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

- Martin Luther King Jr.


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's charachter, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln


You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

- Will Rogers


If anything at all, perfection is finally attained when there is no longer anything to take away.

- Antoine de Saint Exupery


In great moments, life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater -- it seems inevitable.

- Margret Sherwood






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