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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
...this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
John Adams - Letter to Thomas Jefferson 1816
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Ben Joseph Akiba
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
George Allen
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
Our lives improve only when we take chances --and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant
will prevent the worst before it happens.
Brooks Atkinson
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.
Australian Aboriginal Elder
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Maltbie Babcock
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Everyone is a book of blood when opened we are red.
Clive Barker
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Beaumarchais
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Neils Bohr
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
The test of morality of a society is what it does for it's children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.
I always used to tell Thomas Wolfe, there are three things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready and you can't
go home again.
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and
earnestly.
Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life
around.
Leo Buscaglia
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Any Idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Proverb
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey Clark
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go.
Captain Cook
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
David Dinkins, NYC Mayor, answering accusation that he failed to pay his
taxes.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Disraeli
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Never judge a book by it's movie.
J.W. Eagan
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Thomas Alva Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen it's brutality, it's futility, it's stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had getter get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud, 1933
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, in 1981
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann von Goethe
In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra.
Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough
attention to women's breasts?
Hugh Grant
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything
Alex Hamilton
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Hebrew Proverb
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
The great masses of people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
What luck for the rulers than men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
Nothing worthwhile comes easily.
Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish the results that last.
Hamilton Holt
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's you own self.
Aldous Huxley
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
John Junor
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.
Virgil A. Kraft
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Doug Larson
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Never give up the fight.
Bob Marley
Religion... is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.
Ralph Nader
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best
possible use.
Earl Nightingale
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it's true.
Robert Oppenheimer
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.
If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will suprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Leo Roster
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Steinmetz
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
Potter Stewart
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
Charles "Chic" Thompson
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge, we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale E. Turner
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut
Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
Dr. Who
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Wittgenstein
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven Wright
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom X, 1965
If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
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