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  • The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.
        Unknown   Best?
  • It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything.
        Mohammad Ali   Best?
  • The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case.
        Arthur Schlesinger Jr.   Best?
  • Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
        Helen Hayes   Best?
  • IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
        John Locke   Best?
  • Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
        Spanish Proverb   Best?
  • Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
        Clifford Geertz   Best?
  • Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
        Calvin Coolidge   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?
  • The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
        Martin Luther   Best?
  • I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  • I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.
        Anna Quindlen   Best?
  • If I'm supposed to carry the banner for all the nerds in the world, I'm fine with that.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive.
        David Assael   Best?
  • Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?
        Jesus Christ   Best?
  • The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
        Humphrey Bogart   Best?
  • Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
        J. D. Salinger   Best?
  • Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
        Werner Herzog   Best?
  • More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
        Old Indian saying   Best?
  • Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
        Pete Wentz   Best?
  • Avoiding danger is no safer than out right exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
        Helen Keller   Best?
  • Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
        Alexandre Dumas   Best?
  • A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
        William Hazlitt   Best?

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