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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
- Hob Broun
- There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
- I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
- He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
- People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
- Tellis Frank
- I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
- They can do all because they think they can.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
- Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
- Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
- Price Cobb
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