Birth

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  • ...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
        Abraham Lincoln   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?
  • The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
        Moliere   Best?
  • His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
        Mae West   Best?
  • Quality is never an accident.
        Willa A. Foster   Best?
  • A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
        Confucious   Best?
  • One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
        Frederich Nietzsche   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?
  • The silent bear no witness against themselves.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
        William James   Best?
  • Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.
        William Claude Dunkenfield   Best?
  • PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Best?
  • They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
        Plato   Best?
  • Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
        Ronald Reagan   Best?
  • All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
        Henri F. Amiel   Best?
  • Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.
        Tom Stoppard   Best?
  • You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.
        Michelangelo   Best?
  • Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
        George Harrison   Best?
  • The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
        Dennis Kucinich   Best?
  • The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
        Lucius Annaeus Seneca   Best?
  • The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
        Jean Cocteau   Best?
  • If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
        Lee Iacocca   Best?
  • You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
        Nancy Astor   Best?
  • Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
        Sharon Salzberg   Best?
  • To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
        Madonna   Best?
  • There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
        Scott Adams   Best?
  • The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
        Robert Fulghum   Best?
  • Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
        Aphra Behn   Best?

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