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Friday, December 28, 2007

"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Poor

Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

Translation:

It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.


Seneca Epistulae morales, II, 6

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Shoes

... once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining
shoes. I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw
there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his
mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience ...

Sa'di The Gulistan, 1258

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Life

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life, I was given life, that I
might enjoy all things.

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Hitler

Remark to Rajkumari Amrit

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an
ability that is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without
much bloodshed.

Mohandas K. Gandhi May 1940

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Time

Which beginning of time according to our chronology, fell upon the entrance
of the night preceding the twenty third day of October in the year of the
Julian Calender, 710.

James Ussher Archbishop of Armagh 1581-1656 Annals of the World, 1658

(4004 B.C.)

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Class

The true way to overcome the evil of class distinctions is not to denounce
them as revolutionists denounce them, but to ignore them as children ignore
them.

Charles Dickens 1906

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Familiarity

Familiarity breeds content.

Anna Quindlen

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Hereditary

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not
hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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Friday, December 7, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - King

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus 1465-1536 - Adagia, 1508

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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Ugly

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Ayn Rand

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Fantasy-Land

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the
discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and
technical manipulation.

Tom Naylor

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Life

A life without cause is a life without effect.

Barbarella

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Walk on Water

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the
headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM!

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Education

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern but impossible to enslave.

Baron Henry Peter Brougham

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - America

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
civilization in between.

Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - God

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato 427?-348? B.C.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Reason

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.

Jonathan Swift?

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Judge

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Einstein

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Morale

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

General George Catlett - Marshall Military Review

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Gods

Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat

Translation:

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad.

Euripides 480-406 BC

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Distrust

In philosophy, we must distrust the things we understand too easily as well
as the things we don't understand.

Voltaire 1694-1778 - Lettres Philosophiques, 1734

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Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Guard

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Translation:

But who will guard the guardians?

Juvenal Satires

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Fate

It is the answer that fate gives to all who ask that question, when
disaster, death, tragedy, hardship overtake them. "Why me? Why me? Why
me?"... And Fate answers these fools--"Why not?"

John Gardner - Scorpius

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Think

Most people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Mistakes

If I had to live my life again I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead 1903-1968

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Age

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men
are born old, and some never grow old.

Tryon Edwards

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Dyslexic

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

Bruce Jenner

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Destiny

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill 1874-1965

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Monday, November 5, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Constructions

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the
principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link
between them.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Friday, November 2, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Works vs Sounds Good

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades
has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Hate

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American educator

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Govern

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is
hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people
against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to
govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they
mean to be masters.

Daniel Webster

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Distress

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Writer

"The writer is an Engineer! of the human soul."

Joseph Stalin


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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Leader

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where
they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be."

Rosalynn Carter

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Victory

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Savielly Grigorievitch TartakowerChess Master 1887-1956


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Monday, October 22, 2007

Famous Quotes At Quotation Ring - Death

"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me."

Emily Dickinson


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