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Better
to reign in hell than serve in heaven...
-John Milton (Paradise Lost)
A
single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin
A
good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
-Katharine Whitehorn
Research
is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-Marston Bates
Some
people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
-Barry Switzer
History
will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Be
not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare
(Twelfth Night)
History
is a set of lies agreed upon.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
He
who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
-George Orwell
Power
corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton
From
each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
-Karl
Marx
Never
do today what can be put off till tomorrow.
-Matthew
Browne
Wherever you have efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry Truman
Education is an admirable thing, but
it is well to remember from time to time that nothing in life worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde
When
you are going through hell, keep going.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Exhaust
the little moment, for soon it dies,
And
be it gash or gold it will never come again in this identical disguise.
-Gwendolyn Brooks
Last
words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-Karl
Marx
We
are all in the gutter, but some of us look up to the stars.
-Oscar
Wilde
The
fastest way to succeed is to look as if youre playing by somebody else's rules, whilst quietly playing by you own.
-Michael
Korda
I disapprove of what you say, but
I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-Voltaire
Once
you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
-Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
The
optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.
-James Branch Cabell
A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Copy
from one source, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
-Wilson
Mizner
We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence)
Nothing important happened today.
-George III (diary entry on
the day of the American Declaration of Independence)
Reality
is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
-Albert
Einstein
May you live in interesting times.
-Ancient Chinese Curse
You can lead a fool to wisdom but
you can't make him think.
-Proverb
Ask not what your country can do for
you - ask what you can do for your country.
-John F Kennedy
Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive!
-Sir Walter Scott
It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool than to open your mouth and remove
all doubt.
-Samuel Johnson
If I have seen further than other men, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-Sir Isaac Newton
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
If you desire peace, prepare for war.
-Flavius
Vegetius Renatus
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but
you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
-Abraham Lincoln
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
-Samuel Johnson
A
journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Lao-Tzu
To
gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
-Bernadette
Devlin
The
time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Bertrand
Russel
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
-Franklin D.
Roosevelt
The only
thing we have to fear is fear itself.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
One cannot
demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.
-Dwight MacDonald
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