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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
- Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
- Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), The Arm of the Starfish, 1965
- There must be more to life than having everything.
- Maurice Sendak (1928 - )
- For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
- Gloria Borger
- I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
- Joe Walsh
- If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- Stuart's Law of Retroaction
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
- Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
- Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
- Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
- If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
- Sidney J. Harris
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