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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Generally Speaking, Chapter 20, 1929
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I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1891
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Lecture, Cleveland, Ohio, February 3, 1932
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.: Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds, 1954
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To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), The Illiterate Digest, 1924
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.: Hilton Kramer, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960
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