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US Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evi…

15 Feb , 2011  

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Great short quote and quotation by: US Declaration of Independence ,

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George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

We know that dictators are quick to…

15 Feb , 2011  

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. Great short quote and […]

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We merely want to live in peace wit…

15 Feb , 2011  

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes […]

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Kabbalah

We must learn not to disassociate t…

15 Feb , 2011  

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity. Great short quote and quotation by: Kabbalah ,

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Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

We must never allow the future to b…

15 Feb , 2011  

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. Great short quote and quotation by: Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 – )

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What is all wisdom save a collectio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. Great short quote and quotation by: Norman Douglas ,

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What is all wisdom save a collectio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings– they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner […]

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Robert Kennedy

What is objectionable, what is dang…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Kennedy ,

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Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia

What kind of people do they think w…

15 Feb , 2011  

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny? Great short quote and quotation by: Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia ,

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Norbert Wiener

What most experimenters take for gr…

15 Feb , 2011  

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. Great short quote and quotation by: Norbert Wiener ,

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Guindon cartoon caption

Whatever their other contributions …

15 Feb , 2011  

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. Great short quote and quotation by: Guindon cartoon caption ,

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When a man feels throbbing within h…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say “amen” to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, – this is happiness, this is success. Great short quote and quotation by: […]

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