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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,877 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,575 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,272 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,498 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,757 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,510 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,899 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,725 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,831 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,422 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!"
— Stephen R. Covey

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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace
73 people liked it

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: solitude
72 people liked it

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books
69 people liked it

"In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

63 people liked it

"Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: self
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"God's law is "right reason". When perfectly understood it is called "wisdom". When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called "justice"."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense."
— Glenn Beck (Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine)

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"But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter."
— Glenn Beck (Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine)

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"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
— Noah Webster

tags: amendment, second
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"The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young."
— Noah Webster

tags: authorty, children, obedience, parents
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"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws."
— Noah Webster

tags: inspirational, politics, religion
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"Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor."
— Noah Webster (The Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary with King James Bible in Libronix CD)

tags: female, honor, modesty
2 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,170 people liked it

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: faith, god, jesus
263 people liked it

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: family
245 people liked it

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity
235 people liked it

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
130 people liked it

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."
— Frédéric Bastiat (The Law)

tags: 1850
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"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
— Frédéric Bastiat (The Law)

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"“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”"
— Frédéric Bastiat

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"“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”"
— Frédéric Bastiat

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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: human, nature
47 people liked it

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20 people liked it

"The future is not some place we're going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made."
— Jane Garvey

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"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
— Stephen R. Covey

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"We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions."
— Stephen R. Covey

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"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."
— Stephen R. Covey

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"The way we see the problem is the problem."
— Stephen R. Covey

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""I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.""
— Stephen R. Covey

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"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment."
— Stephen R. Covey

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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,627 people liked it

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
3,199 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,278 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,726 people liked it

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Aristotle

tags: politics
76 people liked it

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