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11,493 | 17,029 | Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. | Khalil Gibran | equality |
1,339 | 46,609 | I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge. | Robert Griffin III | mom |
4,257 | 45,807 | We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. | Calvin Coolidge | men |
4,457 | 53,294 | It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. | Roger Moore | peace |
7,265 | 62,262 | Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. | James D. Watson | science |
3,187 | 54,190 | Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. | Daisaku Ikeda | poetry |
10,034 | 63,986 | I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. | Jeremy London | sports |
7,504 | 38,550 | The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. | John Jay Hooker | intelligence |
9,260 | 37,792 | Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. | Emmitt Smith | imagination |
3,974 | 49,616 | I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies. | Christopher Meloni | movies |
11,255 | 60,115 | The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. | Gerrit Smith | respect |
3,467 | 22,884 | Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. | Alistair Darling | finance |
1,968 | 66,206 | A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | sympathy |
4,778 | 20,522 | I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. | Elizabeth Edwards | family |
841 | 10,327 | Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. | Andy Rooney | computers |
4,380 | 17,167 | You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. | Arthur Ashe | equality |
9,557 | 63,453 | That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between. | Zakk Wylde | society |
6,574 | 26,980 | To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. | Bo Bennett | future |
10,825 | 1,233 | Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone. | Deepak Chopra | alone |
1,460 | 47,408 | As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? | Alexis de Tocqueville | money |
8,103 | 45,023 | Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price. | Alex Chiu | medical |
6,783 | 47,924 | They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window. | Suze Orman | money |
5,697 | 37,956 | Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. | James L. Farmer, Jr. | imagination |
5,486 | 53,210 | When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement. | Janeane Garofalo | peace |
1,900 | 74,132 | Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women. | Kate Smith | women |
11,467 | 37,994 | I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. | Chris Cooper | imagination |
1,781 | 62,838 | Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. | Albert Camus | society |
7,428 | 39,332 | My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis. | Emeril Lagasse | knowledge |
6,927 | 17,974 | A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. | Charles Ives | experience |
1,593 | 5,701 | I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial. | Martina McBride | beauty |
43 | 43,636 | Passion is momentary love is enduring. | John Wooden | love |
3,661 | 46,817 | Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do. | Diana Lopez | mom |
6,755 | 50,887 | We're not trying to change the world just music. | Jonathan Davis | music |
2,907 | 35,200 | Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't. | LeBron James | home |
10,783 | 25,535 | Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. | Oliver Goldsmith | friendship |
10,225 | 51,589 | Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. | Arthur Schopenhauer | nature |
6,632 | 64,539 | War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. | George Orwell | strength |
1,274 | 64,246 | One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. | Will McDonough | sports |
713 | 15,060 | Dreaming men are haunted men. | Stephen Vincent Benet | dreams |
6,875 | 64,557 | Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. | Mattie Stepanek | strength |
9,991 | 963 | I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. | Jack Kevorkian | age |
11,174 | 38,353 | Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. | Henry David Thoreau | intelligence |
6,457 | 26,182 | My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. | Mike Myers | funny |
3,847 | 61,863 | What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. | Fareed Zakaria | science |
5,241 | 55,760 | Money in politics is a huge issue. | Russ Feingold | politics |
1,526 | 9,275 | The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. | M. Scott Peck | change |
9,930 | 52,150 | The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | nature |
8,101 | 60,438 | There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. | Paul Simon | romantic |
11,375 | 62,030 | When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. | John Charles Polanyi | science |
5,600 | 73,698 | When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?' | Mitt Romney | women |
8,574 | 35,853 | In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. | Lucy Maud Montgomery | hope |
3,524 | 15,964 | Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. | W. E. B. Du Bois | education |
6,880 | 4,164 | Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. | Theodor Adorno | art |
1,752 | 58,572 | Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. | Bonnie Raitt | religion |
9,487 | 9,972 | If your life changes, we can change the world, too. | Yoko Ono | change |
5,550 | 40,819 | Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. | Arthur Koestler | learning |
9,614 | 52,450 | Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. | Alice Walker | patience |
604 | 67,882 | I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust? | Anna Chlumsky | teen |
1,777 | 54,068 | I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. | Pablo Neruda | poetry |
2,612 | 42,473 | If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. | Abraham Maslow | life |
4,032 | 75,839 | To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach. | Bobby Bowden | newyears |
10,107 | 29,312 | I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. | Sonia Sotomayor | good |
7,051 | 58,185 | All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. | Christopher McCandless | relationship |
4,882 | 31,357 | Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. | Chen Shui-bian | great |
10,951 | 2,938 | I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress. | April Bowlby | amazing |
765 | 26,920 | Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. | Ann Landers | future |
362 | 64,902 | We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future. | John Hoeven | strength |
9,569 | 40,832 | Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. | B. B. King | learning |
3,127 | 44,042 | When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. | Joseph Campbell | marriage |
630 | 43,888 | All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. | Red Skelton | marriage |
4,809 | 1,718 | Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. | Steve Lacy | alone |
4,037 | 23,639 | When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? | Jerry Brown | food |
10,175 | 64,973 | I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress. | Ann Bancroft | strength |
1,990 | 35,379 | At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends. | Knute Rockne | home |
1,579 | 47,038 | For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles. | Ne-Yo | mom |
1,671 | 73,658 | I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. | Mitch Hedberg | women |
11,702 | 47,061 | When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show. | Jacqueline Emerson | mom |
5,010 | 28,106 | God's desire is that we excel. | Joel Osteen | god |
4,378 | 69,292 | I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. | Gene Simmons | travel |
4,766 | 34,348 | You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. | David Hockney | history |
4,251 | 39,047 | If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. | Margaret Fuller | knowledge |
9,713 | 46,416 | I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. | Cathy Guisewite | mom |
74 | 5,313 | Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. | Timothy Radcliffe | beauty |
2,416 | 55,153 | A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. | Peter Jennings | politics |
3,261 | 19,426 | Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. | Joseph Conrad | faith |
7,300 | 8,845 | Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character. | Richard Hammond | car |
6,069 | 68,158 | Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. | Thomas A. Edison | time |
9,393 | 39,651 | It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. | Michael Nesmith | knowledge |
157 | 42,096 | Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. | Khalil Gibran | life |
7,583 | 32,683 | The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. | V. S. Pritchett | happiness |
9,708 | 721 | Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. | Clarence Day | age |
4,726 | 29,938 | The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. | H. L. Mencken | government |
3,434 | 26,151 | It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts. | Jason Reitman | funny |
5,402 | 38,073 | Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! | Audrey Hepburn | inspirational |
920 | 9,833 | We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. | William Hague | change |
8,137 | 65,214 | It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. | Winston Churchill | success |
4,003 | 47,397 | One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. | Morihei Ueshiba | money |
2,453 | 33,685 | Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America. | Curt Weldon | health |
1,516 | 15,340 | Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. | Russell Baker | dreams |
2,644 | 71,721 | You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. | Napoleon Bonaparte | war |
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