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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~quotes on Freedom by Louis D. Brandeis Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
~sayings on History by Dwight D. Eisenhower Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
~quotations on Death by J.J. Furnas I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
~funny saying and phrase by Mark Twain To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
~quote about Government by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
~quotes on Religion by Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
~sayings on Patriotism by Charles de Gaulle Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
~quotations on Mothers by Kate Douglas Wiggin One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
~funny saying and phrase by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
~saying about phrase by Cali Rae Turner Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence
~quote about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
~quotes on Statistics by Gregg Easterbrook It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
~sayings on Sex by Mrs. Patrick Campbell Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
~quotations on Psychology by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
~funny saying and phrase by Quentin Crisp When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
~saying about phrase by Arland Gilbert Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
~quote about Mothers by Oprah Winfrey If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
~quotes on Attitude by Oscar Wilde If you want others to be happy, practice compassionIf you want to be happy, practice compassion
~sayings on Sweetest Day by Dalai Lama The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
~quotations on Women by Guy de Maupassant I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
~funny saying and phrase by Jane Rule Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
~saying about phrase by William Ernest Hocking If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
~quote about Kindness by Willie Davis Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.
~quotes on Light by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless We Shelter You America. The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them... from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right.
~sayings on Property by Fred Woodworth, Rent: An Injustice Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
~quotations on Goodbye by Garrison Keillor When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you
~funny saying and phrase by Gene Perret Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense
~saying about phrase by Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience
~quote about Adversity by Author Unknown He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
~quotes on Living by Buddha A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on
~sayings on Baby by Carl Sandburg The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
~quotations on America by Alexis de Tocqueville There can be no friendship when there is no freedom; Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures
~funny saying and phrase by William Penn We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~saying about phrase by Marian Wright-Edelman You cannot plan the future by the past
~quote about Future by Edmund Burke I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her
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