"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt, the mobs should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence. "

Cicero, Marcus T. on uncategorised
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on airplane and aviation
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"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."

Agnew, Spiro T. on media
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"There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow. "

Agnew, Spiro T. on uncategorised   

"I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the western country, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and its development has scarcely commenced. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundred of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that waits for them in the West. Tell the miners from me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability; because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation, and we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the treasury of the world. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on ancestry
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"Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on humankind
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"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

King Jr. Martin Luther on past
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on friends and friendship
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"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys."

Donne, John on nudity   

"I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary."

Roberts, Julia on nudity   

"To every thing there is a season, and time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. "

Bible on uncategorised
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"When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen."

Twells, Henry on time   

"People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on world   

"I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years of college."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on economy and economics   

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on listening
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"Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on multiculturalism
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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on neighbors
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"Never answer a question from a farmer."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on politics   

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on evolution
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"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on quotations
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"Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided."

Penn, William on vow   

"Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying."

Proverb, Irish on age and aging
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"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

Spooner, Lysander on slavery   

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on liberty
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"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

Byrne, Robert on politics
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"When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people."

Proverb, Chinese on planning
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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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"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

Tagore, Rabindranath on life
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

Donne, John on prison   

"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."

Donne, John on self-sabotage   

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

Donne, John on cooperation
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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

Donne, John on death
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. "

Donne, John on uncategorised
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and duty calling us devoutely to express our grateful acknowledgements to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us. The General directs that the army remain in its present quarters, and that the Chaplains perform divine service with their several Corps and brigades. And earnestly exhorts, all officers and soldiers, whose absence is not indispensibly necessary, to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

John Paul II on abortion
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