The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.
Ronald Reagan
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Harold Pinter
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer
I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.
Ashley Tisdale
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
George Orwell
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
Sarah McLachlan
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
Wilbur Smith
At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic momentsgo unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Paulo Coelho
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
Graham Kerr
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut
The only water in the forest is the River.
Neil Gaiman
The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.
Victor Hugo
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.
Terry Pratchett
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
Etta James
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room
Blaise Pascal
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Leigh Steinberg
When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.
Terri Clark
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
Ted Stevens
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
Edward F. Halifax
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
Jimmy Carter
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)
Albert Einstein
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
Bishop Hall
Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
Calvin S. Hall
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanely Hall
Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.
Jerry Hall
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
Fred Durst
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
Christopher Hitchens
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
Thomas Frank
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