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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
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.: Hob Broun
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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)
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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 - )
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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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
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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)
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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
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Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.: Price Cobb