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- Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
- Irish Proverb
- The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The gallery in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm.
- Lord McCauley
- The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
- Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
- The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
- Doug Larson
- The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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