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1,941 | 29,725 | We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | Winston Churchill | government |
4,298 | 47,469 | Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | money |
1,193 | 23,026 | I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics. | Oscar Pistorius | fitness |
2,124 | 6,133 | Living well is the best revenge. | George Herbert | best |
10,309 | 58,886 | So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips. | Peter Singer | religion |
3,367 | 3,837 | It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. | Max Eastman | art |
2,800 | 20,700 | We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. | Jonathan Safran Foer | family |
9,718 | 47,373 | President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people! | Mitt Romney | money |
724 | 35,775 | On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away. | John Ratzenberger | home |
8,571 | 34,302 | You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough. | Tom Hiddleston | history |
5,227 | 43,778 | The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. | Aldous Huxley | love |
1,119 | 7,060 | Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free. | Scott Adams | best |
2,271 | 19,579 | Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. | Billy Ray Cyrus | faith |
11,135 | 6,081 | I think love and beauty are what life is all about. | John Derek | beauty |
5,824 | 14,794 | It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried. | Adele | diet |
11,430 | 35,038 | One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. | Hermann Hesse | home |
1,561 | 67,052 | Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology. | Simon Mainwaring | technology |
283 | 74,576 | It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. | Jim Morrison | work |
6,358 | 23,426 | I hid myself in food. | Gordon Ramsay | food |
1,948 | 303 | The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. | John W. Gardner | age |
376 | 18,130 | I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. | Jane Campion | experience |
3,170 | 37,635 | Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. | Al Gore | imagination |
7,239 | 38,093 | I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. | Benjamin Disraeli | inspirational |
8,616 | 41,600 | However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel. | Hassan Nasrallah | legal |
11,584 | 59,958 | There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others. | Conrad Black | respect |
8,726 | 25,965 | Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. | Ben Stein | funny |
7,227 | 60,954 | Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. | Christina G. Rossetti | sad |
6,377 | 43,525 | My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. | Farrah Fawcett | love |
5,482 | 17,863 | Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't. | Pete Seeger | experience |
4,939 | 55,354 | I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. | Nate Silver | politics |
11,031 | 51,040 | A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. | Harry Connick, Jr. | music |
8,046 | 23,609 | The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought. | Ina Garten | food |
2,979 | 23,087 | I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. | John Barrymore | food |
5,148 | 16,340 | We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way. | Jennifer Garner | education |
11,427 | 44,893 | Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. | Peter Shaffer | medical |
5,687 | 55,735 | I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. | Joan Cusack | politics |
627 | 31,513 | It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | great |
10,675 | 61,685 | That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. | Edward Abbey | science |
11,528 | 68,608 | At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States. | Mitt Romney | time |
4,721 | 8,411 | I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. | Ferdinand Porsche | car |
2,192 | 56,958 | Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. | Kofi Annan | power |
10,142 | 47,261 | Never spend your money before you have earned it. | Thomas Jefferson | money |
8,165 | 70,166 | I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely. | Greta Scacchi | trust |
9,186 | 19,370 | For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. | Albert Claude | faith |
5,339 | 72,336 | This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war. | Jack Nicklaus | war |
11,292 | 38,207 | Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God. | Smokey Robinson | inspirational |
6,960 | 53,504 | I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace. | King Hussein I | peace |
5,854 | 55,439 | For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different. | Lucy Powell | politics |
8,845 | 71,312 | For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. | John Dryden | truth |
10,259 | 73,594 | I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. | Oscar Wilde | women |
9,294 | 19,035 | Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. | Mahatma Gandhi | faith |
10,457 | 57,050 | The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. | Vaclav Havel | power |
6,443 | 25,577 | The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. | Armistead Maupin | friendship |
8,991 | 38,900 | From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. | Ludovico Ariosto | jealousy |
7,731 | 49,624 | I've played a lot of mothers in my movies. | Vera Farmiga | movies |
7,734 | 57,713 | On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. | Edward Albert | relationship |
4,480 | 31,748 | A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. | Samuel Johnson | great |
3,519 | 40,659 | Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. | Samuel Butler | learning |
11,746 | 11,864 | There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. | Abu Bakar Bashir | courage |
7,400 | 56,041 | At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive. | Paul Feig | positive |
4,159 | 16,758 | The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. | Bryant McGill | education |
6,240 | 75,470 | Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. | Frances Wright | christmas |
5,367 | 24,632 | The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. | Jimmy Carter | freedom |
507 | 31,772 | Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. | Samuel Johnson | great |
9,395 | 26,626 | Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere. | Jeff Ross | funny |
1,232 | 44,345 | There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. | Iain Duncan Smith | marriage |
1,117 | 13,594 | Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. | Rosalind Russell | death |
5,945 | 23,478 | Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. | Mario Batali | food |
8,175 | 73,069 | Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. | Mary Kay Ash | wisdom |
1,100 | 1,220 | Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. | William Alexander | alone |
6,309 | 48,822 | I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45. | Burt Ward | morning |
9,115 | 71,692 | Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. | Ron Paul | war |
3,189 | 37,776 | I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. | James Broughton | imagination |
1,769 | 35,154 | But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. | Pat Robertson | home |
2,468 | 11,019 | In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. | Scott Thompson | cool |
10,197 | 50,007 | Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages. | Selma Blair | movies |
3,951 | 38,454 | It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rat... | John le Carre | intelligence |
2,441 | 63,264 | The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. | Joe Biden | society |
9,534 | 37,910 | Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. | LeVar Burton | imagination |
11,272 | 51,425 | All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. | Plato | nature |
340 | 33,270 | I've always enjoyed poor health. | Taylor Caldwell | health |
42 | 9,196 | If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. | Jim Rohn | change |
11,054 | 17,296 | The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. | Lyman Trumbull | equality |
5,656 | 41,505 | We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible. | Tom Conway | learning |
1,076 | 49,841 | You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon. | Kevin Smith | movies |
5,915 | 25,352 | Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities. | C. S. Lewis | friendship |
7,628 | 34,486 | Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. | Wole Soyinka | history |
2,359 | 12,568 | I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. | Dave Mustaine | dad |
8,351 | 577 | Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. | Thomas Browne | age |
8,317 | 1,579 | Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. | Nigel Farage | alone |
9,455 | 63,368 | In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. | Jonathan Sacks | society |
2,604 | 73,771 | Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. | Bette Davis | women |
5,951 | 7,729 | Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. | Thomas J. Watson | business |
8,669 | 55,305 | You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics. | Benjamin Netanyahu | politics |
8,505 | 20,913 | Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far. | Gwen Stefani | family |
2,735 | 43,966 | He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. | Jeremy Taylor | marriage |
7,661 | 13,451 | Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. | Isaac Asimov | death |
6,177 | 69,708 | Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. | Elizabeth Drew | travel |
2,347 | 72,876 | Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. | Evelyn Underhill | wisdom |
8,407 | 26,023 | I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny. | Demetri Martin | funny |
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