"There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio."

Kennedy, John F. on voting   

"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"

Kesey, Ken on voting   

"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."

Hubbard, Kin on voting
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"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

Baudouin I on war
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"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."

Bismarck, Otto Von on war
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"War is like love, it always finds a way."

Brecht, Bertolt on war
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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

Churchill, Winston on war
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks."

Nelms, Cynthia on women
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"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."

Martineau, Harriet on women   

"A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide."

Lynes, Russell on women
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"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"

Luce, Clare Boothe on women
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"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

Dali, Salvador on originality
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"Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully."

Aristotle on poetry and poets   

"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."

Ashbery, John on poetry and poets   

"Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for."

Cocteau, Jean on poetry and poets   

"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him."

Cher on women
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"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."

Durrell, Lawrence on women
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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

Eliot, George on women
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"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Esar, Evan on women
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"Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman."

Euripides on women
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"Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds."

Kempton, Sally on women
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"You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her."

Leverson, Ada on women
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

Dali, Salvador on imitation
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory."

Caesar, Julius on pride
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love."

Proverb, Turkish on food and eating
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"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."

Proverb, Turkish on wisdom
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"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Proverb, Spanish on flattery
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"It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it."

Proverb, Spanish on argument
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"Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee."

Proverb, Spanish on love
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river."

Khrushchev, Nikita on politics   

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

Kundera, Milan on the future
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

Bacon, Francis on desire
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"It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on art
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