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- But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
- A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
- Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
- When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 9/18/90
- The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - )
- Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), "Winter of Artifice"
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