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  • Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
        George Carlin   Best?
  • The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking.
        Annson Dorrance   Best?
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
        Vincent van Gogh   Best?
  • His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over, the plate's empty.
        Loretta Lynn   Best?
  • I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
        Confucious   Best?
  • They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • The only real possession you'll ever have is your own character.
        Thomas Wolfe   Best?
  • It's such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
        Jason Mraz   Best?
  • Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.
        Thomas Dewar   Best?
  • I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend.
        Stephen King   Best?
  • Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
        Japanese Proverb   Best?
  • We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Don't measure your wealth by how much money you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for.
        Myrlie Evers-Williams   Best?
  • The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humour left.
        Chuck Palahniuk   Best?
  • The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.
        Craig Volk   Best?
  • The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • The discipline of desire is the background of character.
        John Locke   Best?
  • When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
        Socrates   Best?
  • The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • [Y]ou sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?

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