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Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
Topic: Dreams
Author: L J Suenens
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
Topic: Lying
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
Topic: Influence
Author: Lord Lytton
The Buck Stops Here.
A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Topic: Charm
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
Turn your scars into stars.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Topic: Age
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
Author: David Mamet
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
Topic: Greatness
Author: Lord Lytton
All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Topic: Last Words
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Topic: Liberty
Author: Voltaire
Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Roald Dahl
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Author: F A Hayek
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Topic: Future
Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a. A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Topic: Merriment
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Topic: Result
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Topic: Love