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  • There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Imitation is suicide.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • A man is known by the company he avoids.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
        Unknown   Best?
  • True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
        Ernest Gaines   Best?
  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.
        Judy Garland   Best?
  • The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
        Cornelius Tacitus   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?
  • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • My friends are my estate.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.
        Prophet Mohammad   Best?
  • Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
        Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
        Charles Caleb Colton   Best?
  • Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Everything you do or say is public relations.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
        Dwight D. Morrow   Best?
  • I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
        Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Best?
  • Morals are private. Decency is public.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
        Upton Sinclair   Best?
  • Our flag is red,white, and blue. But our nation is a rainbow-Red,Yellow,brown,black, and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
        Jesse Jackson   Best?
  • Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
        Dinesh D'Souza   Best?
  • Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
        William Arthur Wood   Best?
  • But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
        Martha Nussbaum   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • [Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
        Reverend W. Awdry   Best?

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