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I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
Topic: Patriotism
Author: Thomas Paine
A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer.
Author: Unknown
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
Topic: Tyranny
I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Topic: Oysters
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!
Topic: Quality
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Topic: Russia
This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
Topic: Choices
Author: A J Toynbee
In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.
Author: Mcdermott
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
Topic: Pride
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Author: Pablo Casals
The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Topic: Voting
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Author: Frank Rizzo
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
Topic: Deceit
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Don't look back, they might be gaining on you.
Topic: Hindsight
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
Topic: Youth
Author: Homer
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Author: Ethan Coen
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Topic: Courage