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[Quote No.21944] Need Area: Friends > General "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. [Ultimately all legislation to be effective must be enforceable.]" - Mao Zedong Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.21946] Need Area: Friends > General "A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.21948] Need Area: Friends > General "They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22004] Need Area: Friends > General "Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands." - Daniel J. Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, prize-winning author and Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22019] Need Area: Friends > General "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think [of the decency and value] of what I do! That is [good] character!" - Theodore Roosevelt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22028] Need Area: Friends > General "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots." - Napoleon Bonaparte Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22029] Need Area: Friends > General "A man [or woman] does what he [or she] must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality." - John F. Kennedy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22033] Need Area: Friends > General "I keep reading between the lies." - Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz, Kansas City, MO, January 15; 1899 - died New York, N.Y., March 25, 1982), was one of the most memorable humourists in the 20th Century. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22034] Need Area: Friends > General "Politics makes estranged bedfellows.[sometimes]" - Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz, Kansas City, MO, January 15; 1899 - died New York, N.Y., March 25, 1982), was one of the most memorable humourists in the 20th Century. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22037] Need Area: Friends > General "There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man [or woman] is worth his [or her] salt unless he [or she] has lost and won battle for a principle." - A. P. Gouthey Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22038] Need Area: Friends > General "No man [or woman] is worth his [or her] salt who is not ready at all times to risk his [or her] well-being, to risk his [or her] body, to risk his [or her] life, in a great cause [for the good of all]." - Theodore Roosevelt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22039] Need Area: Friends > General "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22044] Need Area: Friends > General "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - John F. Kennedy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22046] Need Area: Friends > General "There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves." - Arthur P. Stanley Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22055] Need Area: Friends > General "[Beware anger and revenge because...] The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him." - Chinese Proverb Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22084] Need Area: Friends > General "Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history [with difficult people and times], controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions." - John F. Kennedy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22087] Need Area: Friends > General "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day, and right mindfulness is the protection by night." - Buddha Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22088] Need Area: Friends > General "The Christian ideal [of loving your neighbor as yourself] has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried [by most]." - Gilbert K. Chesterton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22090] Need Area: Friends > General "Consistency [of character, behavior and word] is the foundation of virtue." - Francis Bacon Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22099] Need Area: Friends > General "The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life." - William Wordsworth Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22104] Need Area: Friends > General "The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom." - Lady Bird Johnson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22109] Need Area: Friends > General "Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals." - Niccolo Machiavelli Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22137] Need Area: Friends > General "Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again!" - Og Mandino born December 12, 1923 - died September 3, 1996) He was a US pilot during World War II, and later he worked as a magazine editor, eventually becoming a best-selling inspirational author and speaker. [From his book 'A Better Way To Live']
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[Quote No.22148] Need Area: Friends > General "It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with true greatness by having wide thoughts [empathy] and much feeling [compassion] for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. This special sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose above everything else, because our souls see that it is good." - George Eliot Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22163] Need Area: Friends > General "The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums." - Arthur Koestler Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22164] Need Area: Friends > General "The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed." - Claude D. Pepper Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22167] Need Area: Friends > General "No wise combatant [fighter] underestimates their antagonist." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22171] Need Area: Friends > General "Be such a man [person], and live such a life, that if every man [person] were such as you, and every life like yours, this earth would be a God's Paradise." - Brooks Phillips (1835-1893) American minister and poet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22194] Need Area: Friends > General "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." - Buddha Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22195] Need Area: Friends > General "Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering." - Buddha Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22196] Need Area: Friends > General "Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." - Buddha Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22205] Need Area: Friends > General "Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law." - Buddha Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22297] Need Area: Friends > General "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - The Dalai Lama Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.25188] Need Area: Friends > General "The ballot is stronger than the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.25189] Need Area: Friends > General "Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability." - William Feather (1889 - 1981) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22330] Need Area: Friends > General "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones." - Benjamin Franklin Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22373] Need Area: Friends > General "The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape." - Bono Co-founder, lead singer and principal lyricist of the Irish rock band U2 and political activist.
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[Quote No.22391] Need Area: Friends > General "… we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity." - Michael Moore American author and Academy Award-winning director and producer Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22408] Need Area: Friends > General "I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. [because they assume all politicians lie.]" - Di Cavour Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22450] Need Area: Friends > General "In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanise our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries ...[this way]... their lives lose all value. [and it could be argued, we dehumanize and devalue ourselves as well, so there are no winners - only those who lose least.]" - Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States (1977-1981) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22451] Need Area: Friends > General "Often in war it is not about who is right... but who is left! [and they write its history too!!]" - unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22459] Need Area: Friends > General "What a man believes may be ascertained not from his creed, but from assumptions on which he habitually acts." - George Bernard Shaw Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22461] Need Area: Friends > General "Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in." - Jeff Skoll Canadian born businessman, first president of internet auction firm eBay, founder of the independent movie production company Participant Productions and philanthropist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22465] Need Area: Friends > General "Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have." - Winston Churchill English politician including being Prime Minister from 1940-45 and 1951-55, and historian and author winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953
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[Quote No.22469] Need Area: Friends > General "The essence of virtue consists in the doing of what is good rather than what is difficult." - Thomas Aquinas Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22471] Need Area: Friends > General "Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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[Quote No.22472] Need Area: Friends > General "Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22474] Need Area: Friends > General "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem." - Washington Irving Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22506] Need Area: Friends > General "There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference." - Juan Montalvo Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.22538] Need Area: Friends > General "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." - Warren Buffett Famous American billionaire investor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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