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  • You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
        Indira Gandhi   Best?
  • Winning is a lot like shaving. If you don't do it all the time, you wind up looking like a bum.
        Jack Kemp   Best?
  • The time for thinkers has come.
        Mary Baker Eddy   Best?
  • So long as faith with freedom reigns
        Alfred Austin   Best?
  • The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
        Milan Kundera   Best?
  • You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.
        Michelangelo   Best?
  • As long as you are going to think anyway, think big.
        Donald Trump   Best?
  • The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.
        Lorne Bloch   Best?
  • Eyes that see do not grow old.
        Nicaraguan Proverb   Best?
  • Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin.
        Honduran Proverb   Best?
  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
        Edward Everett Hale   Best?
  • Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
        James D. Watson   Best?
  • All would live long, but none would be old.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her.
        Rachel Hunter   Best?
  • You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
        George Carlin   Best?
  • We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.
        John Gotti   Best?
  • I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
        Ellen DeGeneres   Best?
  • Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
        John Singer Sargent   Best?
  • Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
        Dame Edna Everage   Best?
  • The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
        Albert Einstein   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?
  • To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
        Plato   Best?
  • You're never too old to become younger.
        Mae West   Best?
  • I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
        E.B. White   Best?
  • The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
        Andy Warhol   Best?

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