Today's Quote

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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"We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry. It is more important to have good priests than to have many priests." -- Pope Benedict

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In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day." -- IMF chief Robert Zoellick.

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"I don't need to be on TV on a Saturday night; I do it because I love helping these performers." -- Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber hits back at Kevin Spacey's accusations that his reality television shows are basically just long advertising campaigns for his musicals.

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Classic Quotes by Artemus Ward (1834-1867) American writer

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

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I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

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Draw your salary before spending it.

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My pollertics, like my religion, being of an exceedin' accomodatin' character.

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Classic Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) 18th U.S. President, Civil War general

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

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I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't.

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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

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Classic Quotes by Dolores Huerta (1930- ) American activist

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

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Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

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We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

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Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don't have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do.

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"The family fireside is the best of schools."

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"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in
bad company."