"Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?"

Perot, H. Ross on elections
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"That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."

Baum, Lyman Frank on reason   

"Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief."

Luther, Martin on weapons   

"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on wrong
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"Two wrongs do not make a right."

Proverb, English on wrong   

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on failure
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"Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

Bierce, Ambrose on food and eating
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"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks."

Fields, Totie on food and eating   

"More die in the United States from too much food than from too little."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on food and eating
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

Gandhi, Mahatma on food and eating
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"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on government
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Chesterfield, Lord on advice
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"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak."

Chaplin, Ralph on apathy
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"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one."

Ransom, Ralph on momentum   

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"What keeps me going is goals."

Ali, Muhammad on momentum   

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."

Cohen, Leonard on body
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."

Cohen, Leonard on despair   

"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on sanity
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"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Jung, Carl on sanity
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"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people."

Zedong, Mao on weapons   

"A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests."

Briand, Aristide on nations   

"That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it."

Wran, Neville Kenneth on work
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

Gibran, Kahlil on fun
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Adams, Douglas on responsibility
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"To summarize the summary, people are a problem."

Adams, Douglas on
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"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."

Colton, Charles Caleb on family   

"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."

Colton, Charles Caleb on detail   

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

Colton, Charles Caleb on school   

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

Bodett, Tom on school
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"Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working."

Dewey, Orville on labor
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"Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor."

Ma, Sri Anandamayi on labor   

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Roosevelt, Theodore on labor
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