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To travel hopefully is a better thi…

13 Oct , 2011  

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)

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To travel hopefully is a better thi…

13 Oct , 2011  

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)

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Troubles are often the tools God fa…

13 Oct , 2011  

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ward Beecher , US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

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William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 7

True is it that we have seen better…

13 Oct , 2011  

True is it that we have seen better days. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, Act 1 scene 7 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

Edward Teller

Two paradoxes are better than one; …

5 Aug , 2011  

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. Great short quote and quotation by: Edward Teller , US (Hungarian-born) physicist (1908 – 2003)

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Under all speech that is good for a…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

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Under all speech that is good for a…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

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Prophet Muhammad, Muslim

Verily, a man teaching his child ma…

24 Mar , 2011  

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms. Great short quote and quotation by: Prophet Muhammad, Muslim ,

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War is an ugly thing, but not the u…

15 Feb , 2011  

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]

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John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the u…

15 Feb , 2011  

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]

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We are generally the better persuad…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Great short quote and quotation by: Blaise Pascal , French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)

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We are not enemies but friends. We …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. Great short quote and quotation by: Abraham Lincoln , 16th […]

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