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“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire

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

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It is not to political leaders our people must look, but to themselves. Leaders are but individuals, and individuals are imperfect, liable to error and weakness. The strength of the nation will be the strength of the spirit of the whole people.”
― Michael Collins, A Path To Freedom

“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
― Marco Polo, on his deathbed

“No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Read books by people you disagree with. Listen to others who think differently from you. Watch programming you wouldn't normally watch. Expand your mind and views of the world. As right as you think you are about your own beliefs and experiences, others feel the same way about their own. You'll learn more than you ever imagined if you see the world through beliefs rather than right and wrong.”
― Emily Maroutian

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. ”
― Phillips Brooks

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.”
― Louise Penny

“A smile is the universal welcome.”
― Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“Many people have been protesting against what they describe as censorship on Goodreads. I disagree. In fact, I would like to say that I welcome the efforts that Goodreads management is making to improve the deplorably low quality of reviewing on this site.

Please, though, just give me clearer guidelines. I want to know how to use my writing to optimize Amazon sales, especially those of sensitive self-published authors. This is a matter of vital importance to me, and outweighs any possible considerations of making my reviews interesting, truthful, creative or entertaining.”
― Manny Rayner

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.”
― Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost