In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Albert Einstein

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bently

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Ang Lee

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

Alexander Pushkin

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Matthew Henry

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Kurt Vonnegut

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Grover Cleveland

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteur