Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
Rick Perry
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck
I love catching people in the act. That's why I always whip open doors.
Dwight Schrute
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
Arna Bontemps
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
Vanessa Carlton
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.
James Stewart
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
We are the children of our own deeds.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch
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