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- For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
- Abigail Van Buren (1918 - )
- Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
- I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
- We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
- Britney Spears (1981 - ), on her web site, October 2004
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
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