The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
Barbra Streisand
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators -- they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Joseph Sugarman
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
SunTzu
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Bertha von Suttner
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Madame Swetchine
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Youth should be a savings bank.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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