'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/chance.htm

Dwight D Eisenhower, from The Ch

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise.

Raheel Farooq

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

Greg Child

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

Eleanor Bron

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

Stephen King

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

Ronald Reagan

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent

William Shakespeare

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

Connie Stevens

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Terence