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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Don't be humble... you're not that great.I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an... more
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a... more
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"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."- Ronald Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S.was too strong."- Ronald Reagan
"You cannot make the weak strong by making the strong weak"- Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through theU.S. Congress."- Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."- Ronald Reagan
"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."- Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."- Ronald Reagan
"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."- Ronald Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."- Ronald Reagan
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."- Ronald Reagan &n! bsp;
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."- Ronald Reagan
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.- Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."- Ronald Reagan"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
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I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my... more
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Have any to add? From the article>> Quotes from President Barack Obama during his first 100 days in office.
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"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America ? they will be met." ? Inaugural address on Jan. 20.
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"I can say without exception or equivocation that the United States will not torture." ? Remarks on Jan. 22 to employees at the State Department, the same day he signed orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
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"I will be held accountable. You know, I've got four years. ... If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition." ? Interview aired Feb. 2 on NBC's "Today" show.
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"I'm here on television saying I screwed up." ? Interview with NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams," on Feb. 3, after abruptly abandoning his nomination fight for Tom Daschle a little more than 24 hours after he had said he was "absolutely" committed to his health nominee. Obama did similar interviews that day with all five television networks.
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"We have begun the essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time." ? Before he signed into law a $787 billion stimulus package on Feb. 17.
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"The impact of this recession is real and it is everywhere. But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before." ? His first address to a joint session of Congress on Feb 24.
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"It's hard to move around out there sometimes, so I've got to bring the world to me." ? At a March 4 dinner with congressional leaders, Cabinet members and White House aides.
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"Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values." ? Remarks on March 9 as he signed documents changing science policy and removing what some researchers have said were shackles on their work.
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"It was like the Special Olympics or something." ? Comment during an appearance March 19 on NBC's "Tonight" show, telling host Jay Leno he's been practicing at the White House bowling alley but wasn't happy with his score of 129. A spokesman quickly said Obama's remark was not meant to disparage the Special Olympics, only to poke some fun at his bowling skills.
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"It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak." ? Comment after he was asked at a news conference March 24 why it took him so long to express outrage over executive bonuses at the big insurer American International Group Inc.
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"I remind everybody, the United States of America did not choose to fight a war in Afghanistan. Nearly 3,000 of our people were killed on September 11th, 2001, for doing nothing more than going about their daily lives." ? Remarks on March 27 announcing plans to send 4,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, part of a broad escalation troops.
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"The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam." ? Address to the Turkish parliament on April 6.
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"It is time for us to transition to the Iraqis. They need to take responsibility for their country." ? Comment to about 600 U.S. soldiers during a visit to Baghdad on April 7.
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"I'm here to launch a new chapter of engagement that will be sustained throughout my administration." ? Statement to the heads of every democratic government across the Western Hemisphere, at the opening of the Summit of the Americas on April 17.
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"I try to figure out what's right in terms of American interests, and on this one I think I'm right." ? At an April 19 news conference, on critics of his friendly exchange with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at that summit.
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Classic Quotes by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) English writer
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
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Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Look twice before you leap.Classic Quotes by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) English writer
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Iranian president speaking at a UN anti-racism conference described Israel as a "racist government" causing numerous diplomats to walk out.Iranian president speaking at a UN anti-racism conference described Israel as a... more
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Nicolas Sarkozy has never been described as subtle in his political ways but he may now have outdone even himself.
In the space of just one lunchtime, the French president managed to criticize Barack Obama, patronise Angela Merkel and insult José Luis Zapatero.
According to a witness "he said that Obama had a subtle intelligence but that he was recently elected and had never run a state or an authority before." Another guest quoted Sarkozy as saying: "there are numerous things on which he [Obama] hasn't got a position and ... he is not always up to scratch with decisions and efficiency."
Sarkozy then ploughed on with some barbed comments about Merkel's leadership during the crisis.
"Once she realised the state of her banks and her car industry, she had no choice but to come round to my position," he said.
Sarkozy waited until desert to deliver his punch line this time aimed at Zapatero declaring that "Perhaps he's not very intelligent." The remark was emphatically denied by the Elysée but confirmed by sources present at the lunch, held on Tuesday.
Finally, in guise of “digestif” Sarkozy is said to have declared that: "The important thing in democracy is to be re-elected. Look at Berlusconi. He has been re-elected three times."Nicolas Sarkozy has never been described as subtle in his political ways but he may... more
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"People think you go home and be a celeb, sipping Laurent-Perrier and listening to classical music. You don't. You go home and wash some pants in the sink."
Stylist Gok Wan on his enviously glamorous lifestyleQuote of the week according to The Guardian Fashion Statement page:
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Quotes by Edward Everett
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All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.Comment on this Story | Printer Friendly | Send Story to a Friend | Top... more
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.---------------
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Classic Quotes by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.Classic Quotes by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator
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Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.Classic Quotes by Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) American writer
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Classic Quotes by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.---------------
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.... more
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Classic Quotes by Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) German-American rocket expert
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
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I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
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Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.Classic Quotes by Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) German-American rocket expert... more
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Classic Quotes by William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American political leader
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.Classic Quotes by William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American political leader... more
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Classic Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), American playwright and diplomat
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.Classic Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), American playwright and diplomat
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A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva JordanA mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people,... more
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