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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
- All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
- A. L. Kitselman
- To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
- The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
- Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
- Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
- What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
- An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
- Aaron Douglas Trimble
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables,' 1862
- Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
- Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
- I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
- Rita Rudner
- I am never afraid of what I know.
- Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
- If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Woe be to him that reads but one book.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Praise the bridge that carried you over.
- George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger
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