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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are no ordinary people. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Speaker: Irv KupcinetPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you can never have.
Speaker: Soren KierkegaardPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Speaker: Soren KierkegaardPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Speaker: La RouchefoucauldPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So much has been given to me. I have no time to ponder that which has been denied.
Speaker: Helen KellerPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Speaker: Helen KellerPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’m a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
Speaker: F. L. EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.
Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'Monseigneur, I beseech you not to go. You will be risking your life.’
'Is that really all, Monsieur le Maire,’ said the bishop. 'I was not put into this world to preserve my life but to protect souls.’Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!