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- Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John Peter Zenger
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