Famous Quotes
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Socrates:Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.Latin Proverb:
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.Frank Herbert, Dune:
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.Benjamin Disraeli:
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.John F. Kennedy:
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.John Updike:
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.Erich Fromm:
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963:
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Gertrude Stein:
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.Henri Poincare:
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Elrond:
He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658:
The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, ch. 7, sct. 1177b:
We make war that we may live in peace.William Faulkner:
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
