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While we stop to think, we often mi…

15 Feb , 2011  

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Why is it that our memory is good e…

15 Feb , 2011  

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? Great short quote and quotation by: Francois de La Rochefoucauld , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

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Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once,…

15 Feb , 2011  

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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Wise sayings often fall on barren g…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Arthur Helps ,

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Sir Arthur Helps

Wise sayings often fall on barren g…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Arthur Helps ,

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Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4

Yes, I have cherished my “demagogue…

27 Apr , 2010  

Yes, I have cherished my “demagogue” role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America – then, […]

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Ian Gabirol

You may regret your silence once, b…

27 Apr , 2010  

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often. Great short quote and quotation by: Ian Gabirol ,

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Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty,…

27 Apr , 2010  

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ward Beecher , US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

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Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty,…

27 Apr , 2010  

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ward Beecher , US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

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