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  • Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Give death a better name or die trying.
        Timothy Leary   Best?
  • Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
        Plato   Best?
  • Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
        Nelson Mandela   Best?
  • The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
        William James   Best?
  • A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
        Miss Piggy   Best?
  • [Y]ou sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.
        Russian proverb   Best?
  • I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
        Sonia Taitz   Best?
  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
        Aesop   Best?
  • There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
        Johann K. Lavater   Best?
  • If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
        Ray Kroc   Best?
  • For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.
        Katharine Hepburn   Best?
  • The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass that's somehow connected to birth.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?

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