Tag: quote
member name: Felix R.
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November 05, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
And I quote Alexander Hamilton...
From Federalist #8, "Consequences of Hostilities Between the States":
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national . . .
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April 03, 2007 07:13 PM EDT --
Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
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April 20, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
Laughter is wine for the soul -- laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm... Once we can laugh, we can live.
Sean O'Casey . . .
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April 22, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion . . .
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April 23, 2007 11:46 PM EDT --
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? . . .
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April 28, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if he whole world disagrees with it.
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April 29, 2007 05:28 PM EDT --
Love may not make the world go round, but I
must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
-Sean Connery
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May 03, 2007 01:08 AM EDT --
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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May 08, 2007 02:28 AM EDT --
"Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, . . .
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March 20, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to
be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and . . .
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April 09, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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April 12, 2007 07:53 AM EDT --
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me
is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as
its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it
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April 16, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
"Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference . . .
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April 30, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners,
it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the
executioners.
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May 01, 2007 11:10 PM EDT --
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
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May 02, 2007 11:45 PM EDT --
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the
one less traveled by, and that has made all
the difference.
-Robert Frost
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May 09, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and . . .
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May 12, 2007 07:53 PM EDT --
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to . . .
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May 17, 2007 09:18 PM EDT --
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the . . .
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March 24, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came . . .
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