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Will Rogers

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

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

Anonymous

Usability is like oxygen --

Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
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Joseph Dunninger

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
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Paris Hilton

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.
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George Burns

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

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

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

J. K. Rowling

Jane Austen is the pinnacle

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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Albert Einstein

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

Francis Bacon

Money is like muck, not

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

J.D.

Our love is God. Lets

Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.
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Walter Landor

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

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

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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