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  • At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
        Brendan Francis   Best?
  • Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
        Jay Leno   Best?
  • It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
        Russell Baker   Best?
  • A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
        Alexander Fraser Tyler   Best?
  • A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
        Johannes Trithemius   Best?
  • To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
        Herman Melville   Best?
  • L'etat c'est moi (I am the State)
        King Louis XIV of France   Best?
  • I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.
        Orlando Bloom   Best?
  • Diplomacy: lying in state.
        Oliver Hereford   Best?
  • Conversation is food for the soul.
        Mexican Proverb   Best?
  • Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
        Leo Durocher   Best?
  • A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
        Alexander Hamilton   Best?
  • A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • A functioning police state needs no police.
        William S. Burroughs   Best?
  • For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so.
        Josh Billings   Best?
  • I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
        Ronald Reagan   Best?
  • Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
        Marian Wright Edelman   Best?
  • Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.
        Tich Nhat Han   Best?
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
        Kristin Hunter   Best?
  • God creates men, but they choose each other.
        Niccollo Machavelli   Best?
  • Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
        Budd Schulberg   Best?
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
        Natalie Goldberg   Best?
  • If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
        Jose Ortega y Gasset   Best?
  • We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
        Francis J. Braceland   Best?
  • The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
        Henry Wallace   Best?

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