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10,954 | 71,018 | Truth is powerful and it prevails. | Sojourner Truth | truth |
789 | 4,793 | Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | attitude |
6,601 | 17,120 | His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. | James M. Barrie | equality |
3,048 | 10,489 | From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. | John Shadegg | computers |
9,984 | 155 | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | H. L. Mencken | age |
4,775 | 69,551 | There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. | Barry McGuire | travel |
3,453 | 28,420 | God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. | William Cowper | god |
11,181 | 65,362 | A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. | Robert Orben | success |
1,396 | 29,694 | Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. | Roger Babson | good |
277 | 13,680 | And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. | Bodhidharma | death |
10,622 | 55,897 | Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain. | Robert A. Cook | positive |
2,658 | 60,511 | We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. | Irving Babbitt | romantic |
10,154 | 6,825 | Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. | Kurt Angle | best |
4,005 | 37,544 | I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. | Marilyn Manson | imagination |
11,726 | 1,340 | It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. | Phil McGraw | alone |
7,643 | 45,048 | The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. | Timothy Murphy | medical |
8,001 | 72,365 | It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. | Alan Dershowitz | war |
7,577 | 16,783 | Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. | Henry David Thoreau | environmental |
10,648 | 62,630 | I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult. | Lionel Richie | smile |
4,857 | 56,998 | Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. | Hannah Arendt | power |
10,376 | 15,660 | To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams. | Rick Yune | dreams |
7,337 | 58,697 | I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. | E. O. Wilson | religion |
8,939 | 66,797 | My father was a writer and an acting teacher. | Noah Hathaway | teacher |
5,116 | 32,118 | Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | happiness |
1,899 | 9,105 | Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with. | Peter Marshall | change |
3,553 | 3,211 | I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. | Jon Crosby | anger |
10,263 | 43,101 | You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. | Werner Erhard | love |
978 | 11,663 | Political courage is not political suicide. | Arnold Schwarzenegger | courage |
7,301 | 5,409 | Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. | Andre Gide | beauty |
4,260 | 2,482 | There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that. | Alice Englert | amazing |
2,892 | 5,418 | For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. | George Gissing | beauty |
2,969 | 47,732 | But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance. | Heidi Klum | money |
11,492 | 60,078 | Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. | Mike Rogers | respect |
11,444 | 14,163 | Death by starvation is slow. | Mary Austin | death |
6,870 | 57,779 | Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does. | Nick Clegg | relationship |
2,952 | 1,063 | Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? | Charles Lindbergh | alone |
1,907 | 72,598 | I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not. | Jessica Simpson | wedding |
11,065 | 45,036 | As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act. | Sue Kelly | medical |
8,988 | 25,626 | Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. | Juan Antonio Samaranch | friendship |
11,449 | 23,953 | We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. | Kevin Richardson | food |
9,413 | 40,394 | We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means. | Tom Coburn | leadership |
5,280 | 22,267 | Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. | Milan Kundera | fear |
632 | 28,017 | I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do. | Joel Osteen | god |
11,223 | 63,700 | There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. | Robertson Davies | society |
4,026 | 74,904 | God continues to work miracles in my life. | Willie Aames | work |
7,574 | 13,106 | Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. | Anthony J. D'Angelo | dating |
6,374 | 2,477 | I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing. | Foxy Brown | amazing |
3,252 | 34,409 | From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours. | David Cameron | history |
8,096 | 38,188 | The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. | Cheryl James | inspirational |
2,711 | 6,369 | The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. | Richard Bach | best |
11,703 | 38,257 | I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. | Dolly Parton | intelligence |
6,679 | 54,347 | Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. | Eugenio Montale | poetry |
2,092 | 19,670 | My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood. | Jim Caviezel | faith |
776 | 2,451 | I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds. | Joan Lunden | amazing |
2,238 | 63,113 | In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes. | Bob Ney | society |
11,678 | 13,803 | Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. | Andre Breton | death |
2,017 | 56,558 | The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. | Winston Churchill | power |
10,621 | 19,194 | Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. | Joel Osteen | faith |
5,337 | 62,745 | Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. | Thomas Szasz | society |
5,071 | 4,244 | To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously. | Jerry Saltz | art |
8,481 | 38,709 | But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. | Stephen Cambone | intelligence |
8,167 | 12,977 | The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. | Evangeline Lilly | dad |
7,080 | 13,126 | Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. | Kim Cattrall | dating |
8,872 | 43,201 | The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. | Audrey Hepburn | love |
7,901 | 62,315 | There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. | Fred Saberhagen | science |
8,415 | 58,269 | The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman. | Gerard Depardieu | relationship |
112 | 34,309 | In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. | Edward de Bono | history |
8,245 | 43,741 | Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. | Ella Fitzgerald | love |
1,230 | 13,374 | Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. | Steve Jobs | death |
4,455 | 58,451 | We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. | Oswald Chambers | religion |
4,367 | 7,056 | I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can. | Kesha | best |
5,661 | 2,532 | Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering. | Nikki Reed | amazing |
9,463 | 30,211 | But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. | Marco Rubio | government |
6,895 | 41,298 | I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas. | Burt Ward | learning |
5,230 | 10,101 | The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product. | Frank Luntz | communication |
8,229 | 40,768 | Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read. | Mariska Hargitay | learning |
6,545 | 67,650 | Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances. | Jim Hunt | technology |
9,703 | 25,057 | With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life. | Kylie Minogue | freedom |
10,211 | 65,261 | They succeed, because they think they can. | Virgil | success |
7,637 | 56,445 | Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. | Alfred Lord Tennyson | power |
11,680 | 43,587 | I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work. | Michael Jackson | love |
10,968 | 67,899 | I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records. | Michelle Branch | teen |
3,412 | 48,124 | What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job. | Diane Kruger | money |
11,699 | 35,074 | My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back. | Denzel Washington | home |
11,186 | 48,438 | Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful. | Christopher Meloni | morning |
2,721 | 60,839 | Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? | William Blake | sad |
3,101 | 21,776 | And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us. | Ian Rush | fear |
3,002 | 69,216 | Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? | John Cleese | travel |
5,122 | 69,807 | The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. | Marilyn Monroe | trust |
440 | 6,525 | A boy's story is the best that is ever told. | Charles Dickens | best |
2,043 | 20,629 | A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good. | Aung San Suu Kyi | family |
1,584 | 36,731 | The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. | Stephen Ambrose | hope |
11,643 | 69,479 | I do not have any pets. We travel too much. | Nancy Kerrigan | travel |
225 | 70,746 | A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. | Robert Kiyosaki | truth |
3,180 | 31,753 | It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. | Dan Quayle | great |
4,394 | 71,331 | Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. | Ice Cube | truth |
4,164 | 29,720 | The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. | Winston Churchill | government |
95 | 17,385 | I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. | Joseph Campbell | experience |
1,411 | 3,301 | One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. | Honore de Balzac | anniversary |
260 | 66,421 | Suffering is one of life's great teachers. | Bryant H. McGill | teacher |
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