One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Junius
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
Richard Milhous Nixon
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden
You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest universities, and here they are burning up the books, I mean storming around about this issueI mean you name itget rid of the war; there will be another one. Out there weve got kids who are just doing their duty. I have seen them. They stand tall, and they are proud. I am sure they are scared. I was when I was there. But when it really comes down to it, they stand up and, boy, you have to talk up to those men. And they are going to do fine; weve got to stand back of them.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
Ron Wyden
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
Paul Ryan
When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon
It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.
All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Kathleen Norris
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
Deepak Chopra
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
Robert Reich
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