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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I’m certain man has covered woman’s face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers. – Federico Fellini
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. “ – Reba McEntire
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. -Victor Hugo
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."-Unknown
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. - Gene Hackman (RIP)
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Character like a photograph, develops in darkness.” — Yousuf Karsh
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast. – Jean de La Fontaine
"Grass is always greener over the septic tank" - Erma Bombeck
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. - Isaac Asimov
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
Things happen in life to get our attention, to make us wake up. - Demi Moore
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.” — H.P. Lovecraft
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. - Charles Dudley Warner
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Soren Kierkegaard
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, as without light, nothing flowers.” – May Sarton
For tis not in mere death that men die most. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.” —Mortimer Adler
“The most terrifying darkness is not the absence of light, it’s the one that comes from within.” – Unknown
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. - Boris Pasternak
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” – Socrates
I will fight for the people until my last breath. - Rodrigo Duterte
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song. – Jean Giraudoux
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.--Hector Berlioz
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde