It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
~quote about Bicycling by Ernest Hemingway
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~quotes on Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
~sayings on Hypocrisy by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894 Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~quotations on Helping by Mother Teresa Love: Two minds without a single thought
~better democracy famous saying by Philip Barry All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
~saying about better democracy by Mark Kennedy
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~quote about Perspective by Charles Simic Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
~quotes on Living by Author Unknown Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
~sayings on Sports by Alec Douglas Home There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
~quotations on Marriage by Iris Murdoch Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
~better democracy famous saying by Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Declaration of Rights April 1This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four
~saying about better democracy by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~quote about Age by Robert Browning The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
~quotes on Golden Mean by Don Marquis Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
~sayings on Love by Author Unknown You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
~quotations on Adversity by Henry Ward Beecher Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
~better democracy famous saying by Horace Mann The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
~saying about better democracy by Jean Cocteau If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.
~quote about Death by From the television show Roseanne The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
~quotes on Books Reading by Holbrook Jackson Constant striving is the price of constant progress.
~sayings on Success by May you live all the days of your life.
~quotations on Carpe Diem by Jonathan Swift A golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.
~better democracy famous saying by Author Unknown America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American
~saying about better democracy by George W. Bush Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
~quote about Names by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
~quotes on Art by Claes Oldenburg Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
~sayings on Environment by Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1977 Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
~quotations on Humility by Charles Haddon Spurgeon When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
~better democracy famous saying by Emerson Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate?
~saying about better democracy by Author Unknown Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.
~quote about Entrepreneurism by Brian Tracy God made death so we'd know when to stop.
~quotes on Death by Steven Stiles As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
~sayings on Labor by Thomas A. Edison Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.
~quotations on Gambling by VP Pappy If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.
~better democracy famous saying by Author Unknown Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS
~saying about better democracy by Gene Perret The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
~quote about Science by J.T. Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stronger, 1987 The devil’s favorite tool is tricking people to put things off. Outsmart him, DO IT NOW.
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