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Italia! Oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty
Lord Byron
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Marion Wink
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Samuel Johnson
...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us—it simply reveals what we are made of already.
Oswald Chambers
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
Evan Esar
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
Fred Brooks
Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.
Aquaviva
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.
Marcus Aristides
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.
Chuang-tzu
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.
Author Unknown
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
Chazal
