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To be able to practice five things …

13 Oct , 2011  

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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To most of us nothing is so invisib…

13 Oct , 2011  

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)

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Train up a fig tree in the way it s…

13 Oct , 2011  

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Dickens , English novelist (1812 – 1870)

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Under a government which imprisons …

4 Aug , 2011  

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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Under all speech that is good for a…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

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Under all speech that is good for a…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)

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Under certain circumstances, profan…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

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Hanna Arendt, 1906 - 1975

Under conditions of tyranny it is f…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think. Great short quote and quotation by: Hanna Arendt, 1906 – 1975 ,

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Under conditions of tyranny it is f…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Great short quote and quotation by: Hannah Arendt , US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 – 1975)

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Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan

Under the influence of art the wall…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan , US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 – 1899)

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Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.

Under every stone lurks a politicia…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under every stone lurks a politician. Great short quote and quotation by: Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C. , Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC – 388 BC)

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Under democracy one party always de…

4 Aug , 2011  

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)

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