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  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
        Jimmy Carter   Best?
  • History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
        Duke Ellington   Best?
  • The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
        Shelley Winters   Best?
  • Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
        Sue Murphy   Best?
  • A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  • Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
        Jack Nicklaus   Best?
  • The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
        Bill Gates   Best?
  • They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Once in the racket you're always in it.
        Al Capone   Best?
  • Let each man exercise the art he knows.
        Aristophanes   Best?
  • Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
        Homer   Best?
  • pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
        Jeff Meyer   Best?
  • Now comes the mystery.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
        E.B. White   Best?
  • Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
        Arthur Balfour   Best?
  • Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.
        Kevin Rooney   Best?
  • WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.
        Judith Stone   Best?
  • You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
        Joseph Heller   Best?
  • It is the province of knowledge to speak
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!
        Unknown   Best?
  • The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
        Lee Iacocca   Best?
  • You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
        Plato   Best?
  • Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
        Jonathan Kozol   Best?

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