Tag: quote
group name: quotes2008
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February 08, 2008 09:20 PM EST --
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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March 17, 2008 09:04 PM EDT --
"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." . . . more
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April 07, 2008 11:40 AM EDT --
Writing Quote of the Day ~ April 07, 2008
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. . . . more
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January 17, 2008 02:05 PM EST --
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln
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January 25, 2008 10:13 AM EST --
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Mozart
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January 03, 2008 01:16 PM EST --
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
This is so true. . . . more
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January 21, 2008 02:42 AM EST --
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
— Malachy McCourt
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February 05, 2008 12:59 PM EST --
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - M.K. Gandhi
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January 12, 2008 08:17 PM EST --
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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April 25, 2008 11:23 PM EDT --
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world
The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself
Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
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August 17, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
Abraham Lincoln, Debate at Alton, Illinois , on October 15, 1858 (CWAL III:310) . . . more
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August 16, 2008 07:19 AM EDT --
The mode [of studying law] is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading . . . more
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August 15, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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January 09, 2008 01:09 PM EST --
"The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... for tomorrow you may have to eat them."
— Unknown
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January 12, 2008 03:35 PM EST --
"The death of dogma is the birth of reality."
— Immanuel Kant
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January 26, 2008 05:11 PM EST --
" If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow".
-Heath Ledger
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March 31, 2008 02:44 AM EDT --
Writing Quote of the Day ~ March 31, 2008
"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense . . . more
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April 01, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
Writing Quote of the Day ~ April 01, 2008
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
Enrique . . . more
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April 02, 2008 12:00 PM EDT --
Writing Quote of the Day ~ April 02, 2008
"At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and . . . more
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April 03, 2008 11:14 AM EDT --
Writing Quote of the Day ~ April 03, 2008
"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal , "Lettres . . . more
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