Quotes By The Day

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Napoleon Bonaparte
(8/15/1769-5/18/1821)
French Leader

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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A true man hates no one.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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All religions have been made by men.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ----------
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Imagination rules the world.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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Pope John Paul II(5/18/1920-4/2/2005)

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

[Snowden]

What a combinaton! Napoleon and John Paul II!

Napoleon: This,

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

and this

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

can often result in this

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

, I would say!

[conlor]

Originally Posted by Snowden

What a combinaton! Napoleon and John Paul II!

Napoleon: This, and this

can often result in this

, I would say!

Doesn't it seem that nice people don't become leaders?

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Classic Quotes by Malcolm X (1925-1965) U.S. spiritual leader

Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God"
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.
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It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

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Classic Quotes by Honore de Balzac (5/20/1799-1850) French writer

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.