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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

George Fox

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Clarence Day

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Dalai Lama

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlene Dietrich

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Pat Riley

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Anne Sullivan Macy

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Denis Waitley

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Lewis B. Smedes

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Bruce Springsteen

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

The art of a people is a true mirror of their mind.

Seneca

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Amy Lowell

I had sadness for breakfast.

Andy Milonakis

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Alice Duer Miller

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalynn Carter

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Josh Billings

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Corazon Aquino

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Joseph Hall

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

Arthur Helps

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Heraclitus

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

James Dean

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Orson Welles

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Alvin Toffler

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore de Balzac

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Marsha Sinetar

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

Michael Franti

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

Chief Joseph

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Stephen Sondheim

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Paulo Coelho

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Edgar Winter

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor Adorno

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

William Hazlitt

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

James M. Barrie

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adam Osborne

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Saint Teresa of Avila

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Earl Warren

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Sonny Perdue

It is by universal misunderstanding that we agree with each other. If, by some misfortune, we understood each other, we would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Huxley

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

Adam Schiff

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Once you have established the goals you want and the price you're willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures.

George Iles

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Samuel Johnson

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Ruskin

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gertrude Jekyll

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Max Muller

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Dwight L. Moody

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Lord Chesterfield

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles Kettering

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Maya Angelou

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Thomas Moore

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Flannery O'Connor

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

John Barrymore

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

George Will

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Khalil Gibran

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Robert Browning

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Failure has gone to his head.

Wilson Mizner

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Woodrow Wilson

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Stephen Vincent Benet

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only. We've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Jim Fowler

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Walt Disney

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Albert Camus

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Charles R. Swindoll

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Moliere

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Bill Moyers

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Bill Copeland

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The groves were God's first temples.

William C. Bryant

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Elayne Boosler

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

James Hillman

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Erma Bombeck

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Vincent Van Gogh

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

H. L. Mencken

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Tupac Shakur

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Richard Dawkins

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Larry Wall

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Benjamin Disraeli

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

H. L. Mencken

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

C. S. Lewis

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Thomas Carlyle

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dali

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrie P. Snow

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Elie Wiesel

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Bryant H. McGill

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Doug Coupland

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Russell Baker

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

Norman Douglas

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

E. M. Forster

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Carl Jung

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Howard Nemerov

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