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  • Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
        Yves Saint Laurent   Best?
  • It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
        Alex Comfort   Best?
  • Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
        Spanish Proverb   Best?
  • I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
        Georges Duhamel   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 boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
        Robert Benchley   Best?
  • There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
        Fyodor Dostoevski   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?
  • And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
        William Hazlitt   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?
  • Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   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 young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
        Plato   Best?
  • Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Don't say yes until I finish talking.
        Darryl F. Zanuck   Best?
  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
        Edward Everett Hale   Best?
  • Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
        R. Buckminster Fuller   Best?
  • If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
        Holly Lisle   Best?
  • Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
        Zig Ziglar   Best?
  • The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
        Robinson Jeffers   Best?
  • It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.
        John Gotti   Best?

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