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A. Sachs
"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
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William Safire
* "Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
Carl Sagan
* "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
* "Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid."
"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."
* "The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science."
* "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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John Charles Salak
"Failures are divided into two classes: 1. Those who thought and never did. 2. Those who did and never thought."
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Herbert Samuel
"The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others."
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George Santayana
"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."
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Robert W. Sarnoff
"Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward."
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
* "Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom."
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
"For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life."
Laura Schlessinger
"The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am."
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John Schnatter
* "If you don’t care of the people who are doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down." [Washington Post - Irish Castles, 5-19-2014]
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." [The Basis of Morality]
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Charles M. Schulz
* "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong.' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
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Albert Schweitzer
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light."
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Gen. Winfield Scott
"Brave Rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel."
[1847 address to U.S. cavalrymen during the Mexican War]
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Frank Scully
* "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"
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Seneca
"A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment."
"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."
* "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
"When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
Rod Serling
* "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."
Dr. Seuss
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
* "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."
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Eric Sevareid
* "Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend"
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William Shakespeare
* "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
* "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
* "I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
* "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
* "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
"To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear."
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George Bernard Shaw
* "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul."
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Fulton J. Sheen
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
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Walid Shoebat
"As long as you reject the cross, you will bow to the Crescent. It matters not how many candels you light after each terror attack or how many anti-terror demonstrations you march in, as long as Christ is not the center of your cause, you will bow to the Muslim crescent, like it or not."
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George P. Shultz
"He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides."
* "I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
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Beverly Sills
* "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
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Gene Simmons
* "If you have never been to the moon, you can’t issue policy about the moon."
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Samuel Smiles
* "The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice."
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
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Brandon Smith
* "The ultimate and final goal of evil is to obscure and destroy our very conception of evil itself, to change the inherent moral fiber of all humanity until people can no longer recognize what is right and what is wrong."
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Harold J. Smith
"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them."
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Margaret Chase Smith
* "My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought."
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Stephen A. Smith
[ESPN radio host and TV commentator]
* "When you make the mistake of jumping to emotional conclusions and being factually incorrect, your cachet diminishes." [28 Mar 2014]
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Ralph W. Sockman
* "Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest."
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Socrates
* "A State arises ... out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Can there be any other origin of a State? ... Then, as we have many wants, and many persons are needed to supply them, one takes a helper for one purpose and another for another; and when these partners and helpers are gathered together ... the body of inhabitants is termed a State." [Plato's Republic, book 2]
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
* "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."
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Solon
"He that has learned to obey will know how to command."
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course, there are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life." [Harvard Class Day speech, 1978]
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Sun Tzu
* "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
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Susan Sontag
"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
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Julia Sorel
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never
take any chances."
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Herbert Spencer
* "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
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Joseph Stalin
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
* "I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how."
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"
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Ben Stein
"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human."
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Edith Stein
[Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross]
* "One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
"Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people."
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Abel Stevens
"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."
* "I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
* "In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented."
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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Harlan Fiske Stone
* "Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
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W. Clement Stone
"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
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Kenneth Stroupe
[University of Virginia political scientist]
"They weren't required to do anything they weren't doing anyway, or go anywhere they weren't already going." [on voter registration drives at rock concerts in 2004; most of those registered did not follow through by voting]
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Jonathan Swift
* "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company."
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Charles R. Swindoll
"Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes."
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Sayyid Syeed
[National Director for the Office for Interfaith & Community Alliances for the Islamic Society of North America]
"Our job is to change the Constitution of America"
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Publilius Syrus
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
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Wislawa Szymborska
"History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed."
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