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- I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), "A Room with a View"
- ...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945), Mein Kampf
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.
- Jean Chretien, (Canadian Prime Minister) in an interview in 2003
- Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.
- General John Stark, (State motto of New Hampshire)
- Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
- Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), The Lorax
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