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- 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
- Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- 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
- When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- 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
- 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)
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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