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  • Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
        Hermann Hesse   Best?
  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three!
        Carl Sagan   Best?
  • A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
        Dear Abby   Best?
  • The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll.
        George Whelton   Best?
  • Character is who you are when no one is looking.
        Allan Williams   Best?
  • Badness is only spoiled goodness.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • When good men die their goodness does not perish,
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
        Paxton Hood   Best?
  • Man is by nature a political animal.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they are carried far apart.
        Confucious   Best?
  • It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.
        Maureen Dowd   Best?
  • I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
        Alan Moore   Best?
  • The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • Any type of love is all right. It's your hate that you have to watch.
        Margaret Cho   Best?
  • In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Slow and steady wins the race.
        Aesop   Best?
  • He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
        Albert Einstein   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?
  • Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
        William Blake   Best?
  • One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
        Francis Maitland Balfour   Best?
  • I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • Honor and shame from no condition rise.
        Alexander Pope   Best?
  • A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
        Clifford Geertz   Best?
  • The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
        Ray Kroc   Best?
  • Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
        Phillips Brooks   Best?

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