Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexandre Dumas, Translation from “The Count of Monte Cristo” , French dramatist & novelist (1802 – 1870)
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Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Great short quote and quotation by: Herodotus , Greek historian & traveler (484 BC – 430 BC)
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Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Great short quote and quotation by: Herodotus , Greek historian & traveler (484 BC – 430 BC)
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We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the […]
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US Declaration of Independence
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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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is […]
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government… Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence) ,
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home?so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where […]
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he […]
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Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening , US poet (1874 – 1963)
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow – I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer […]
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