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  • I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over, the plate's empty.
        Loretta Lynn   Best?
  • For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
        Stephen Hawking   Best?
  • Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.
        Richard Price   Best?
  • I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend.
        Stephen King   Best?
  • You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
        Georges Duhamel   Best?
  • Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.
        Kirsten Dunst   Best?
  • A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.
        Romain Rolland   Best?
  • No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
        Plato   Best?
  • If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
        Horace Walpole   Best?
  • ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
        Emile Zola   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?
  • You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.
        Pia Melody   Best?
  • In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
        Joesph Heller   Best?
  • You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
        Marcus Garvey   Best?
  • If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
        Edith Sodergran   Best?
  • If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Imagination rules the world.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated
        Allphonse de Lamartine   Best?
  • There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
        Francis Bacon   Best?

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