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We are like sculptors, constantly c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. Great short quote and quotation by: Anais Nin , US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 – 1977)

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We should be eternally vigilant aga…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , US jurist (1841 – 1935)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We should be eternally vigilant aga…

15 Feb , 2011  

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , US jurist (1841 – 1935)

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What is conservativism? Is it not t…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? Great short quote and quotation by: Abraham Lincoln , 16th president of US (1809 – 1865)

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President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natio

What the world needs today is a def…

15 Feb , 2011  

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. …And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us. Great short quote and quotation by: President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of […]

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When a true genius appears in the w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects

When a true genius appears in this …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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When a true genius appears in this …

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in the w…

15 Feb , 2011  

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Great short quote and quotation by: Jonathan Swift , Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 – 1745)

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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

Wit makes its own welcome, and leve…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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