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When defeat is inevitable, it is wi…

15 Feb , 2011  

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Great short quote and quotation by: Quintilian , Roman rhetorician

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Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.

When desire, having rejected reason…

15 Feb , 2011  

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . Great short quote and quotation by: Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus. , Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)

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Albert Guinon

When everyone is against you, it me…

15 Feb , 2011  

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Guinon , (1863 – 1923)

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When everything seems to be going a…

15 Feb , 2011  

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ford , US automobile industrialist (1863 – 1947)

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When Fascism comes to America, it w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag. Great short quote and quotation by: Huey Long ,

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Huey Long

When fascism comes to America, it w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag. Great short quote and quotation by: Huey Long ,

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Euripides

When good men die their goodness do…

15 Feb , 2011  

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. Great short quote and quotation by: Euripides, Temenidae , Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)

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When griping grief the heart doth w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 2

When he is best, he is a little wor…

15 Feb , 2011  

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, Act 1 scene 2 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

When he stood up, it was a very com…

15 Feb , 2011  

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. Great short quote and quotation by: Neil Gaiman, Good Omens ,

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Pastor Martin Niemoller, Congressional Record, October 14, 1968 (Vol. 114, p. 31636)

When Hitler came for the Jews… I …

15 Feb , 2011  

When Hitler came for the Jews… I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. […]

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When honor and truth are at odds, l…

15 Feb , 2011  

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail. Great short quote and quotation by: Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) ,

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