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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Topic: Peace
Author: Albert Einstein
I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down, A Cloak and Band I then put on, And preached against the Crown.
Topic: Royalty
Author: Samuel Butler
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Eric Hoffer
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Topic: Despair
Author: William M Thackeray
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
Topic: Humanity
Author: Holden Caulfield
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy... Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace...
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Owen
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation -Rainer Maria Rilke.
Topic: Love
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Topic: Manners
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
Topic: Life
Author: Virginia Woolf
We are dancing on a volcano.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Comte De Salvandy
Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.
Topic: Sports
Author: Marv Harshman
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: R Buckminster Fuller
The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Emma Carleton
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Topic: Agreement
Author: Michel De Montaigne
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Topic: Optimism
Author: Milan Kundera
If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Ansari
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603 Having made man in His own image, a rational being, He meant him to be lord only over irrational beings: not man set over man, but man set over beasts. The first cause of servitude is sin, by which man is subjected to man by the bonds of his condition... But by that nature in which God formerly created man, nobody is slave either to man or to sin.
Topic: Christianity
Author: St Augustine