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The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
Topic: Abortion
Author: Justice Harry A Blackmun
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
The meteor flag of England.
Topic: Flags
Author: Thomas Campbell
He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.
Topic: Existence
Author: Hartmann Von Aue
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
Topic: Revolution
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Topic: Consequences
Author: Orison Swett Marden
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Topic: Birth
Author: Laurence Housman
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Topic: Loneliness
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Glen Buck
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Topic: History
Author: Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out
Topic: Goals
Author: Ronald Reagan
The offender never forgives.
Topic: Forgiveness
Author: Proverb
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Sir John Egan
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Topic: Advice
Author: John Dewey
October's foliage yellows with his cold.
Topic: October
Author: John Ruskin
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Topic: University
Author: Doris Lessing
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Topic: Life
Author: Bertrand Russel
The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.
Topic: Balance
Author: James H McGavran