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  • Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • True friendship is never serene.
        Marie de Rabutin-Chantal   Best?
  • I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
        Confucious   Best?
  • A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
        Buddha   Best?
  • Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
        Unknown   Best?
  • If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
        Yugoslav Proverb   Best?
  • If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
        Christina Baldwin   Best?
  • Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
        Laurie Anderson   Best?
  • I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I am a deeply superficial person.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
        James Thurber   Best?
  • Most people receive very little training on how to live effectively and harmoniously with themselves and others. This I believe is an unfortunate outcome of our parenting beliefs and methods, as well as society's educational systems. It seems to me these beliefs and systems empathize academic and vocational skills and place little or no emphasis or value on providing a person with the essential skills to live a life of personal fulfillment, contribution and self actualization. I believe it would be a safe assumption that the great majority of people work at jobs in which they find very little personal satisfaction. Without proper training on how to make wise choices in one's life, the chances are very slim anyone will make them.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Maybe that's all that family really is, a bunch of people who all miss the same imaginary place.
        Zach Braff   Best?
  • The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
        Alexander Hamilton   Best?
  • When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place.
        Oscar Levant   Best?
  • Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
        Kongming   Best?
  • The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
        Jonathan Berry   Best?
  • What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.
        Michel-Guillaume Jean de Creve   Best?
  • Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
        John Le Carre   Best?
  • America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side.
        Vincent Canby   Best?
  • As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.
        Earnest Hemingway   Best?
  • To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
        Anatole France   Best?
  • Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
        Erma Bombeck   Best?
  • Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
        Dick Francis   Best?
  • I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.
        Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Presiden   Best?

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