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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.: Joe Weinstein
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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War is not nice.: Barbara Bush (1925 - )
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.: Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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You always pass failure on the way to success.: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.: Unknown
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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