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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - 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)
- 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
- If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- 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
- War is not nice.
- Barbara Bush (1925 - )
- Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- 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)
- 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)
- 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'
- You always pass failure on the way to success.
- Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
- 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)
- 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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