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Harry S. Truman
It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.
Samuel Rogers
It doesn’t much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
George Foreman
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
Confucius
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Trevor McDonald
Poetry says the things that I can’t say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
Ralph Marston
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement.
Kerry Packer
I agree completely with my son James when he says ‘Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge’.
Romario
I’m happy because I won’t have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.
Niels Bohr
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Michael Zaslow
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn’t know what to say to myself.
Seamus Heaney
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
Richard H. Baker
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Albert Einstein
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Richard Morris
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Albert Einchtein
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
Vincent Van Gogh
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Curtis Carlson
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
Duane Chapman
I have the utmost respect and ‘aloha’ for black people – who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
Ingrid Bergman
Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Greil Marcus
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Mahatma Gandhi
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Andrew Carnegie
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maximilien Robespierre
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Gordon Gould
That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.
Samuel Ullman
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.