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Quotes Of
The Day |
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| "The liar's
punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he
cannot believe anyone else." - George Bernard Shaw. |
| "Man is
ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to
him." - Paul Eldridge |
| "Arguing
is what you do when you have no purpose, want to be right, are not
willing to be responsible for your experience, and are bored. If you
know that it is OK to argue, you are truly enlightened." - Ron
Smothermon |
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| "Why does
a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that
he's not the man she married?" - Barbra Streisand |
| "We learn
from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it
smile." - Grace Williams |
| "The secret
of education is respecting the pupil." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "Show me a
thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure." - Thomas
Alva Edison |
| "Freedom
comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions." -
Clarence Darrow |
| "Power
undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself
is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
- Theodore Roosevelt |
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| "Anyone who
has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy." -
John Dewey |
| "The worst
moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to
thank." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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| "He who
will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares
not is a slave." - Sir William Drummond |
| "Not
ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
- Alfred North Whitehead |
| "The
tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its
face at the same time." - Mary Wilson Little |
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| "Under
capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
- Polish proverb |
| "When a
man says he agrees with something in principle, it means he hasn't the
slightest intention of putting it into practice." - Prince Otto von
Bismarck |
| "The desire
for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise." -
Tacitus |
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| "The mark
of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and
tragedy." - Richard Bach |
| "A
government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the
support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw |
| "Money will
buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail." - Josh
Billings |
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| "Your life
works exactly to the degree that you keep your agreements. An agreement
has integrity because you make it, and for no other reason." - Ron
Smotherman |
| "Seek not
to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may
understand." - Saint Augustine |
| "A great
many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices." - William James |
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| "People who
are sensible about love are incapable of it." - Douglas Yates |
| "Man blames
fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes
a hole in one." - Horizon magazine |
| "The world
is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it
practiced." - A.P. Gouthey |
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| "Moral
indignation is jealously with a halo." - H. G. Wells |
| "Adversity
is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is
honest or not." - Henry Fielding |
| "A foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "A people
that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both - Dwight
D. Eisenhower |
| "It is
better to remain silent and appear stupid than to open your mouth and
remove all doubt" - Abraham Lincoln |
| "If you
give a man a fish, he will eat today ... if you teach him how to
fish, he can feed himself for a lifetime" - ancient Eastern proverb |
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| "The public
good is best promoted by the exertion of each individual seeking his own
good in his own way - Thomas Jefferson |
| "The best
way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got
responsibilities.'" - Richard Bach (from Illusions) |
