Today's Quote

[Griff51]

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of
consecutive days I've stayed alive.

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Originally Posted by Griff51

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of


consecutive days I've stayed alive.

I agree, very good quote Mr Griff! Thanks!

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Classic Quotes by Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) first female US Representative

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

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It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam.... If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

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"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."- Alfred A. Knopf

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We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day,
a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic
waiting somewhere behind the morning."
--J.B. Priestly

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"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore,
they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation
after generation."
--Pearl S. Buck

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"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

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Classic Quotes by Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Canadian writer A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. --------------- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. --------------- All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. --------------- Any artist should be grateful for a nanve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. --------------- California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. --------------- Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. --------------- Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. --------------- Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

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Classic Quotes by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) English physician, mayor

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

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When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

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I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

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At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.

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[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."