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Virtue is not left to stand alone. …

15 Feb , 2011  

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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We sleep safe in our beds because r…

15 Feb , 2011  

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Great short quote and quotation by: George Orwell , English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

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John F. Kennedy

We stand for freedom. That is our c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. Great short quote and quotation by: John F. Kennedy , US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

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When I was fourteen, my father was …

15 Feb , 2011  

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

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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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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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Harriet Woods

You can stand tall, without standin…

27 Apr , 2010  

You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. Great short quote and quotation by: Harriet Woods ,

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Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot run away from a weakness…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)

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Deepak Chopra

You cannot stand anywhere in the un…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself. Great short quote and quotation by: Deepak Chopra ,

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Mark Twain

[Humanity] has unquestionably one r…

11 Jan , 2010  

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark […]

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