Great Famous Quotations

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Samuel Johnson


You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Charles De Gaulle


Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.

Joseph Addison


Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Unknown


The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fear

Pascal


Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

William Shakespeare


When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109


No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

Peter Alcantara


The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Lyndon B. Johnson


Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Kathe Kollwitz


I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

V Naipaul


Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

Charles Baudelaire


It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

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