Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
Proverb
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
Jonathan Safran Foer
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
Lindsey Graham
He makes his home where the living is best.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
Rick Perry
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Beware the tyranny of the minority.
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
Mary Douglas
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
Stupidity is a force unto itself.
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
Joseph Lancaster
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Hygiene is two thirds of health.
The main thing I believe in is freedom.
Charles Evers
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
Charles Van Doren
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
American Indian Proverb
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Dave Chappelle
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Desmond Tutu
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins
I want a big church wedding.
Sienna Miller
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
Berkeley Breathed
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'
Marilyn vos Savant
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Jonathan Sacks
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott
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