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Franois Maurice Mitterrand


France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Kim Hubbard


Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Fawn M. Brodie


Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Lord Salisbury


If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Aristotle


Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998


Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

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Jonathan Larson


Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)


I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Henrik Tikkanen


Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Virgil


They are able because they think they are able.

Bhagavad Gita


As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

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Bruce Kemper


Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 126-8).

Elbert Hubbard


A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)


Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Albert Einstein


If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Aristide Briand


The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Horace


Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun


On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

M. Henry


That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

Andrew A. Rooney


I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

Quintus Fabius Maximus


To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

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Karl Marx


The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

George Bernard Shaw


The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Edmund Burke


An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Dan Burrus


I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

Edward De Bono


Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

William James


Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi


In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Frederick Douglas


What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Will Rogers


If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.

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Scandinavian Proverb


It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.

John Glenn


There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Norman Douglas


To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two.

King Edward VIII


The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Thomas Jefferson


We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

German Proverb


He who teaches children learns more than they do.

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