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  • Winston Churchill Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Tranquility is the old man's milk.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Antonio Machado Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
    Antonio Machado
    Spanish writer and poet (1875 - 1939)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Mark Twain True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • René Daumal Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Bayard Taylor Twas glory once to be a Roman; She makes it glory, now, to be a man.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Beilby Porteus Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Robert Frost Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    The Road Not Taken
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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