 | «We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.»
Jonathan Swift * |
 | «History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.»
George Santayana |
 | «Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.»
Rabindranath Tagore * |
 | «I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.»
Martin Luther King, Jr. * |
 | «I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.»
Albert Einstein * |
 | «When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.»
Sara Teasdale * |
 | «The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.»
St. Augustine of Hippo * |
 | «The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.»
Winston Churchill * |
 | «When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.»
Jimi Hendrix *
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 | «Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
G. Bernard Shaw * |
 | «It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.»
Frederick Buechner * |
 | «Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.»
George Eliot *
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 | «I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.»
Muhammad Ali*
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 | «You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.»
Art Buchwald *
|
 | «When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.»
Brian Aldiss *
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 | «I'm fat, but I'm thin inside; there's a thin man inside every fat man.»
George Orwell * |
 | «What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.»
Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
 | «All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.»
Cyril Connolly * |
 | «The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.»
William Orville Douglas * |
 | «Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.»
Marcel Aymé * |
 | «There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.»
Friedrich August von Hayek *
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 | «I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.»
George Eliot |
 | «The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.»
Eric Hoffer *
|
 | «I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.»
Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi *
|
 | «Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years?»
Bart Simpson *
|
 | «The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.»
Eleanor Roosevelt *
|
 | «Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.»
Oscar Wilde *
|
 | «My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.»
Ellen DeGeneres *
|
 | «It takes a long time to become young.»
Pablo Picasso*
|
 | «If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing. »
Blaise Pascal *
|
 | «I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.»
Princess Margaret *
|
 | «Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?»
Leonardo da Vinci *
|
 | «What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.»
Pearl Bailey *
|
 | «If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.»
Mother Teresa *
|
 | «Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.»
G. Bernard Shaw |
 | «To love another person is to see the face of God»
Victor Hugo *
|
 | «The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.»
Thomas Jefferson *
|
 | «Some stories are trues that never happened.»
Elie Wiesel |
 | «What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?»
Jacqueline Kennedy *
|
 | «I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.»
Elizabeth Barrett Browning *
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