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KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it...
ANN PETRY A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.
DON SHULA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Search deep and wide, from all sphere of known and unknown cosmos, You will find many things that ha...
OLUSEYI AKINBAMI Christianity is the most efficacious way of life in the world
SUNDAY ADELAJA I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way"...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN the finest player I ever coached.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM the real-life tale of a serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized San Francisco for 2...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM What am I watching ? and why?
THE BROTHERS GRIMM The concept has promise, but, as often happens in Mr. Gilliam's movies, the narrative gets gummed up...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM What an excellent day for an exorcism.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM I have no problem with the fact that people don't see the film or don't like it, because there is as...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM [The cemetery shows the fleetingness of fame and wealth. Anyone remember John Finley, a Princeton po...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM [Sporting a stubbly beard and buzz cut, Statham says that he shares some qualities with his characte...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM After Quixote collapsed, there were about four other projects that failed to fly,
THE BROTHERS GRIMM has been in the movies for 45 years-although one would never guess, looking at her. [Throughout her ...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM build a more muscular executive branch.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM You don't need your mouth to pee.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM That was my introduction to everybody on set, ... I was like, 'Ummmmm, hey! Nice to meet ya! How ya ...
THE BROTHERS GRIMM a master of the torturing arts.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND "I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," sa...
NEIL DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
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