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Will Rogers
On account of us being
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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William Lloyd Garrison
With reasonable men I will
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
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Anonymous
Usability is like oxygen --
Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
156
Joseph Dunninger
For those who believe, no
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.
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Will Rogers
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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Benjamin Disraeli
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
16
Paris Hilton
Every women needs at least
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.
85
George Burns
First you forget names, then
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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Charles Sumner
From the beginning of our
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
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Samuel Butler
It has beeen said that
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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J. K. Rowling
Jane Austen is the pinnacle
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
135
Albert Einstein
It was, of course, a
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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Francis Bacon
Money is like muck, not
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Thomas Dewar
Minds are like parachutes...they only
Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.
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John Adams
Statesmen may plan and speculate
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.
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Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The discovery of this strange
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive, we must
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
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Agatha Christie
No country can be described
No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.
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J.D.
Our love is God. Lets
Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.
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Walter Landor
My thoughts are my company;
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Maturity consists in having rediscovered
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
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Marian Wright Edelman
Education is for improving the
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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