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- I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986), Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
- He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993
- It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Paul Clifford (1830)
- To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
- We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
- John Kerry (1943 - ), Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
- We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), September 7, 2003
- Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.
- Edwin Teale
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