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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)
- I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
- Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
- Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
- Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
- Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
- Jerry Flint, in Forbes
- Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
- John Clarke, Economist
- There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
- H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
- I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
- Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
- Chilo
- It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
- Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
- J. Bartlett Brebner
- The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Mustard's no good without roast beef.
- Chico Marx (1891 - 1961)
- You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
- When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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