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  • A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.
        Frank Zappa   Best?
  • A nation that draws too broad a difference between it's scholars and it's warriors will have it's thinking done by cowards, and it's fighting done by fools.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
        Walt Disney   Best?
  • Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
        Cicero   Best?
  • There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
        James Thurber   Best?
  • The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
        Ovid   Best?
  • I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Courage is one step ahead of fear.
        Coleman Young   Best?
  • The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
        Mata Hari   Best?
  • It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle.
        Walter Wangerin, Jr.   Best?
  • It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
        Homer   Best?
  • We are the hero of our own story.
        Mary McCarthy   Best?
  • Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
        Jacob A. Riis   Best?
  • Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
        Helen Hayes   Best?
  • Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
        Bill Clinton   Best?
  • Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the rong run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Solutions are not the answer.
        Richard Nixon   Best?
  • Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
        Alexis Carrel   Best?
  • Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
        Bible   Best?
  • The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
        John Locke   Best?
  • Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
        Cicero   Best?
  • By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
        Confucious   Best?
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
        Unknown   Best?
  • O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Best?

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