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- The laborer is worthy of his reward.
- Bible, 1 Timothy v. 18.
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
- Bible, Hebrews xiii. 2.
- You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
- Jose Narosky
- I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
- Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
- Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.
- Jennifer Granholm, Michigan Governor at Rosa Park's funeral, CNN.com, 11-02-05
- People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-27-1939
- Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress...
- V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 31
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