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- The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005), (on refusing to give up her seat on the bus)
- The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.
- Ellen DeGeneres, On Cell phones and driving
- What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Twilight of the Idols, 1888
- Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.
- Jennifer Granholm, Michigan Governor at Rosa Park's funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
- You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, September 29, 2005
- Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-06-05
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (Attributed)
- Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Unto This Last, essay 2 (1862)
- There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
- Henry Beston, Northern Farm
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