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8,989 | 69,928 | For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. | Aeschylus | trust |
6,402 | 44,264 | Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. | Samuel Richardson | marriage |
7,262 | 9,899 | Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. | Ice T | change |
11,623 | 44,606 | I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26. | Jimmy Carr | marriage |
9,822 | 69,772 | Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. | James Broughton | trust |
6,508 | 26,575 | I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished. | Jean Dujardin | funny |
1,169 | 72,101 | The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. | John Podhoretz | war |
2,316 | 11,353 | I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me. | Naima Adedapo | cool |
3,123 | 22,139 | How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. | George MacDonald | fear |
1,531 | 13,139 | Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them. | Mark Hoppus | dating |
7,341 | 65,323 | Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. | John Wooden | success |
9,612 | 32,437 | Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. | Margaret Cho | happiness |
1,883 | 9,937 | The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. | Roger Ebert | change |
4,256 | 60,337 | There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well. | Mary Ellen Mark | respect |
7,794 | 42,278 | We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last. | Muhammad Ali | life |
8,857 | 10,625 | When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age. | Eliza Dushku | cool |
1,730 | 52,178 | We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people. | George Lincoln Rockwell | nature |
2,348 | 40,872 | Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. | Edward Young | learning |
10,347 | 23,963 | From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands. | Ivan Pavlov | food |
2,732 | 39,639 | Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. | Jacques Barzun | knowledge |
5,473 | 52,322 | While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. | Jane Fonda | parenting |
9,109 | 2,056 | I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. | e. e. cummings | amazing |
2,294 | 69,335 | Two great talkers will not travel far together. | George Borrow | travel |
9,827 | 10,595 | Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. | Jim Carrey | cool |
3,981 | 31,659 | When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. | Calvin Coolidge | great |
4,893 | 47,463 | A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. | Henry A. Wallace | money |
11,201 | 16,412 | Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. | Jerome Bruner | education |
231 | 10,713 | It's cool to go places where working people are happy. | Neil Young | cool |
5,642 | 14,893 | Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications. | Mark Hyman | diet |
7,844 | 12,707 | When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt. | Hope Davis | dad |
8,822 | 43,451 | The love of economy is the root of all virtue. | George Bernard Shaw | love |
8,968 | 9,423 | I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. | Henry Rollins | change |
6,216 | 42,631 | How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. | Jim Valvano | life |
4,524 | 33,140 | Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. | Dave Obey | health |
4,237 | 11,431 | I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. | Paul Wesley | cool |
10,150 | 25,711 | A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. | Don Marquis | funny |
7,710 | 63,437 | One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part. | Francois Hollande | society |
7,516 | 7,403 | Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to. | Harry Emerson Fosdick | business |
11,573 | 66,349 | Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. | W. H. Davies | sympathy |
7,282 | 8,626 | It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car. | Sebastian Vettel | car |
5,284 | 8,872 | I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard. | Krysten Ritter | car |
11,010 | 45,893 | What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. | Bruce Barton | men |
7,981 | 33,852 | The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. | M. Scott Peck | history |
222 | 15,512 | My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams. | Diane Keaton | dreams |
11,207 | 34,341 | The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. | Margaret Fuller | history |
3,646 | 49,460 | I aim for a lifetime full of movies. | Salma Hayek | movies |
907 | 21,077 | And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can. | Tom Felton | famous |
11,440 | 67,763 | They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country. | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka | technology |
3,245 | 58,912 | If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be. | Ziggy Marley | religion |
8,369 | 19,726 | It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. | Jacqueline Cochran | faith |
11,212 | 13,846 | See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life. | Moses | death |
7,797 | 67,064 | There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. | Herbert Simon | technology |
7,502 | 74,320 | It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. | Annie Lennox | women |
1,145 | 66,344 | I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake. | Joe Cornish | sympathy |
6,140 | 482 | Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. | Adlai E. Stevenson | age |
7,192 | 12,731 | Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well. | Jamie Redknapp | dad |
11,625 | 63,245 | I don't think we live in a particularly equal society. | Sienna Miller | society |
11,633 | 61,440 | You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. | Heinrich Heine | science |
5,218 | 63,985 | I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. | Seann William Scott | sports |
7,923 | 66,312 | I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. | Alex Ferguson | sympathy |
10,081 | 67,006 | Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. | Karl Marx | technology |
10,433 | 56,274 | Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution. | John Thune | positive |
11,143 | 17,203 | Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. | Michelle Bachelet | equality |
156 | 63,606 | Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. | Hu Shih | society |
5,621 | 10,680 | Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are. | Channing Tatum | cool |
4,814 | 36,803 | The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.' | Roger Goodell | hope |
8,497 | 62,135 | In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. | Paul Davies | science |
360 | 54,646 | We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. | James Laughlin | poetry |
2,633 | 61,311 | The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. | Shana Alexander | sad |
4,055 | 55,257 | I don't compromise my principles for politics. | Chris Christie | politics |
6,012 | 27,939 | Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. | John Lennon | god |
3,320 | 1,260 | It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end. | Billy Idol | alone |
11,008 | 55,229 | I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. | Fred Frith | politics |
9,249 | 27,199 | For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. | Edward Kennedy | future |
1,832 | 62,095 | I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things. | Danny DeVito | science |
502 | 73,984 | Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there. | Jennifer Aniston | women |
9,783 | 17,084 | I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality. | John Randolph | equality |
10,040 | 63,183 | I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. | Ray Charles | society |
7,912 | 20,437 | Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. | Heidi Klum | family |
7,949 | 64,255 | If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports. | Edward G. Rendell | sports |
4,131 | 30,477 | I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. | Buffalo Bill | government |
10,199 | 13,609 | It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. | Michel de Montaigne | death |
5,489 | 33,114 | People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing. | Benjamin Carson | health |
952 | 66,966 | I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. | Jaron Lanier | technology |
1,573 | 5,664 | Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. | Chaim Potok | beauty |
11,121 | 42,919 | I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. | Judy Garland | love |
7,163 | 22,793 | My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. | Francois Hollande | finance |
5,363 | 18,392 | It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. | Sylvester Stallone | failure |
2,361 | 3,872 | A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. | Eugene Ionesco | art |
7,601 | 74,901 | Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. | Lance Armstrong | work |
1,129 | 15,019 | Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. | George Bernard Shaw | dreams |
7,310 | 23,545 | Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. | Tom Vilsack | food |
7,656 | 30,073 | Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | government |
4,937 | 66,840 | My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures. | Laura Benanti | teacher |
8,867 | 45,924 | Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. | Marcus Tullius Cicero | men |
10,031 | 54,226 | The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. | James Gates Percival | poetry |
1,478 | 43,255 | Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. | Ray Bradbury | love |
11,242 | 55,089 | From politics, it was an easy step to silence. | Jane Austen | politics |
9,558 | 8,369 | We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. | David Suzuki | car |
4,101 | 15,599 | You've got to have dreams to keep you going. | Steve Waugh | dreams |
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