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You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
-FDR

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. - David Foster Wallace

"Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class." -Matt Taibbi

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. - Anton Chekhov

"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it." -Frederick Douglass

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. - Woodrow Wilson

"I have a great relationship with the Mexican people."

"Owning a great golf course gives you great power."

"The point is that you can't be too greedy."

"Private jets cost a lot of money."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?" -Donald Trump

When heard someone's boasting, I could smell shit of bull from afar. - Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." -Arthur Miller

"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation"
~François VI de la Rochefoucault~

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. - Vladimir Lenin

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." -JFK

A fool and his money are soon elected. - Will Rogers

"Never spend your money before you have earned it." -Thomas Jefferson

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. - Leo Tolstoy

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." -Willie Nelson

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth – John Locke

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." -Thomas Jefferson

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. - Hannah Arendt

"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. - Edgar Allan Poe

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." -Albert Einstein

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. - Theodor Herzl

"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own." -Mark Victor Hansen

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." -Michel de Montaigne

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Jones, Jr

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Jones, Sr

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed." -Eminem

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. - Arthur Rimbaud

"Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?" -Nicki Minaj

I can see every monster as they come in. - Truman Capote

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! - Billy Connolly

"The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies." -Wilbur Wright

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

"Change in all things is sweet." -Aristotle

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. - Harriet Tubman

"It is the mind that makes the body." -Sojourner Truth

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars -
Timothy Leary

adversity is the foundation of virtue-unknown

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. - Frederick Buechner

Not sure if it counts but "its better to burn out than to fade away" Def Leopard and The Kurgan.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. - Socrates

"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith." -James Cameron

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." -Sun Tzu

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends. - Cornelius Vanderbilt

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. - John F. Kennedy

*Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind* Gandhi.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

The lunatics have taken over the asylum - Richard A. Rowland

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." -Vince Lombardi

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." -Sun Tzu

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. - Gerald R. Ford

"We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant." -Jimmy Carter

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse." -John Quincy Adams

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. - Bernie Sanders

"I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true." -Al Gore

Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever. - James Buchanan

"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time." -Steve Jobs

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." -Aldous Huxley

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. - Rupert Murdoch

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours." -Ronald Reagan

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S. Thompson

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. - Freddie Mercury

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. - George Washington Carver

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." The Declaration of Independence

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
-Vince Lombardi

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." -Plato

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting. - Rivers Cuomo

"I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier." -Anthony Hopkins

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. - Harry S. Truman

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." H.P. Lovecraft

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. - Joseph Stalin

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -Leo Tolstoy

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. - Rodney Dangerfield

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy." -Frank Sinatra

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." - Siddhārtha Gautama.

Fate pulls you in different directions. - Clint Eastwood

"If you die before you die, than when you die, you will not die" Epigram above the gateway to Monastery on Mount Athos

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

"Happiness is a state of mental well-being defined by a series of positive emotional states including intense joy and contentment free from suffering." The Red Veils

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative - quote from the film "Naked Lunch"

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost

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

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
-Whoopi Goldberg

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like. - Protagoras

"Vampyre nobility is of a personal venture..."
The Red Veils

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology. - Joe Slovo

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