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“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 03 Sep 2009 at 2:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you follow someone who fails to lead, they will lead you to failure.
Speaker: Kerry ColeSource: Discussion Board, CIS 633 Class, Bellevue UniversityPosted: 02 Sep 2009 at 7:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Speaker: Thomas PaineSource: The Age of ReasonPosted: 02 Sep 2009 at 1:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Speaker: Thomas MertonPosted: 01 Sep 2009 at 9:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never face facts; if you do, you’ll never get up in the morning.
Speaker: Marlo ThomasPosted: 01 Sep 2009 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
Speaker: George BurnsPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 7:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?Speaker: EpicurusPosted: 30 Aug 2009 at 7:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Speaker: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPosted: 30 Aug 2009 at 6:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Speaker: Lane OlinghousePosted: 29 Aug 2009 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Speaker: Jascha HeifetzPosted: 28 Aug 2009 at 10:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Speaker: Carl SaganPosted: 28 Aug 2009 at 10:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Speaker: Anatole FrancePosted: 28 Aug 2009 at 10:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
Speaker: Senator Edward "Ted" KennedyPosted: 26 Aug 2009 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
Speaker: Albert SchweitzerPosted: 25 Aug 2009 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Crazy Town Hall Lady: Why do you continue to support a Nazi [health care] policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy? Why are you supporting it?
Barney Frank: When you ask me that question, I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?
Jon Stewart: Apparently a planet where a mixed-race president and a gay Jew qualify as Nazis.
Speaker: Jon StewartPosted: 23 Aug 2009 at 9:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I didn’t think this day would come. Squeaky Fromme – tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford – she’s been let out of prison. She was paroled. Is she going to get a job? If you think about it, there aren’t many jobs for unstable, gun-toting women unless she wants to run for governor of Alaska.
Speaker: David LettermanPosted: 23 Aug 2009 at 9:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Speaker: James MadisonSource: Speech at the Constitutional ConventionPosted: 23 Aug 2009 at 8:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Speaker: Nelson MandelaPosted: 22 Aug 2009 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
...None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Speaker: Oscar WildePosted: 20 Aug 2009 at 9:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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