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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.~Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. ~Henry Rollins

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. - David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. - David Bowie

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. - Rene Descartes

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. ~Blaise Pascal

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. - St. Jerome

I wanna play a game- jigsaw

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walkers," 1866

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. - Samuel Butler

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. - Peter Abelard

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
— J.K. Rowling

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. ~Hazrat Ali

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. ~Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1796

Don't you think one of the charms of marriage is that it makes deception a necessity for both parties? May I ask why a beautiful woman who could have any man in this room wants to be married? - quote from the film "Eyes Wide Shut"
Life goes on. It always does, until it doesn't. - quote from the film "Eyes Wide Shut"

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin

Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Do your best and don't worry. ~Alain Whyte and Steven Morrissey

Don't cry because it's over smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. ~Author Unknown

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Harry S Truman

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M Nixon

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

Women hold up half the sky. - Mao Zedong

Imagination decides everything. - Blaise Pascal

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. - Sam Levenson

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. ~Hugh Allen

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill

But now I'm going to show you what happens to people who ride on my train without a ticket.

Conductor Shack-Emperor of the North.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

General Douglas Mac Arthur

“During my darkest hour, life threw me some curves. Thankfully they were in the shape of a woman’s body.”
― Jarod Kintz

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.
- Joyce Meyer

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. - Julius Caesar

You know sometimes I think there should be a rule of war saying you have to see someone up close and get to know 'em before it's ok to shoot 'em.

Col. Sherman T Potter.

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Immortals... they fail our king's test. And a man who fancies himself a god feels a very human chill crawl up his spine. - quote from the film "300"

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Never was so much owed by so many to so few

Winston Churchill

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams

“Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden”
― R.A. Salvatore, Homeland

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Not all those who wander are lost - JRR Tolkien

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey

Face your fears in the light of day and you can see what's ahead. Face your fears in the dark and you will see nothing. - Jake Jaxson

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. ~Ron Dentinger

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. - Sigmund Freud

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. - Rene Descartes

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna

Without stones there is no arch. - Marco Polo

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author unknown

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thomas Carlyle

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Devilin Fey

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D (Ike) Eisenhower.
One of the last good republicans in my opinion...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. - Naked Lunch(film)

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - Andrew J. Holmes

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

General George S Patton

Things don't have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. - Jack Heath (The Lab)

If there is a day to act on the Love in your soul it is today, it is this moment. ~Mike Dolan

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F Kennedy

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle

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