Quotable Quotes

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If you can get a man to believe absurdities, you can get him to commit atrocities.- Voltaire...

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Life is short, Live it up.

Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet leader

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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just others are behind the time.

Martha Graham, modern dance pioneer

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I didn't invent the world I write about--it's all true

Graham Greene, British author

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt, American first Lady

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Take from me the hope that I can change the future, and you will send me mad.

Israel Zangwill, English Dramatist

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Johathan Swift, English satirist

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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Bernard Shaw, Irish-born playwright

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Only the vanquished remenber history.


Marshall McLuhan, canadian communications theorist

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Earl Weaver, baseball manager

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


Mark Twain

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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

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Prophecy is the wit of a fool.

Vladimir Nabokow

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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much.

P.T. Barnum, American showman

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What experience and history teach is this: that people and government have never learned anything drom history.

Georg Wlihelm Friedrich, German Philosopher

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Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

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How glorious it is--and also how painful to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset, French author

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Nothing is impossible for the guy that doesn't have to do it.

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To love and be loved is like feeling the sun from both sides.