"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Cushing, Richard C. on appearance
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"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on change
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"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

Mother Teresa on god
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"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."

Miller, Henry on life
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Augustine, St. on leadership
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"What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?"

Lincoln, Abraham on conservatives
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"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Thoreau, Henry David on riches
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"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."

Darrow, Clarence on freedom
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent."

Clarke, W. A. on marriage
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"Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind."

Pitman on time   

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

Edgeworth, Maria on confidence
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphanto do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised
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"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deception
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Lincoln, Abraham on ancestry
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"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on excellence
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"Choose a wife by your ear than your eye."

Fuller, Thomas on wives
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"The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it."

Garafola, Frank M. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Hammarskjold, Dag on possibilities
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

Byron, Lord on love
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"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

Byron, Lord on women
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"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

Byron, Lord on patriotism
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"Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile."

Byron, Lord on sincerity
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"A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?"

Richards, Edward Hersey on silence
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"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

Paine, Thomas on deeds and good deeds
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"Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand."

Hale, Edward Everett on support
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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 everythingI will not refuse to do the something that I can do. "

Hale, Edward Everett on uncategorised   

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head."

Guideposts on character
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"Every country has the government it deserves."

Maistre, Joseph De on government
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"What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever."

Munthe, Axel on giving
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"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."

Pope, Alexander on humility
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"Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside."

Pope, Alexander on change   

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."

Meir, Golda on nationalities and nationalism