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Rabindranath Tagore
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
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Newton Booth Tarkington
"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." [ascribed]
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Mildred Taylor
"We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here." [Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry]
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Zachary Taylor
* "The legislative and judicial branches of the Government present prominent examples of distinguished civil attainments and matured experience, and it shall be my endeavor to call to my assistance in the Executive Departments individuals whose talents, integrity, and purity of character will furnish ample guaranties for the faithful and honorable performance of the trusts to be committed to their charge. With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me. In the discharge of these duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to "preserve, protect, and defend."" [Inaugural Address, Monday, March 5, 1849]
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
* "I will venture to lay it down as a general principle, that there are no better means for securing the continuance of peace, than to have it known that the possessions in the neighbourhood of a foreign state are in a condition to repel attack. I am firmly persuaded that among nations, weakness will never be a foundation for security." (1816)
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Corrie Ten Boom
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
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Mother Teresa
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
"It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters."
* "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
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Nikola Tesla
"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."
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Margaret Thatcher
* "A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the State as servant and not as master: these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy. And on that freedom all our other freedoms depend."
* "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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Dylan Thomas
* "A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
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Henry David Thoreau
"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."
* "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
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Rep. Mac Thornberry
* "Power and influence in the world come from having capability plus the will to use it."
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Alexis de Tocqueville
* "Administrative centralization only serves to enervate the peoples that submit to it, because it constantly tends to diminish their civic spirit."
* "A government, by itself, is equally incapable of refreshing the circulation of feelings and ideas among a great people, as it is of controlling every industrial undertaking."
* "Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
* "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
* "I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run." [Democracy in America]
* "It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants."
* "It [government] covers the whole of social life with a network of petty, complicated rules that are both minute and uniform, through which even men of the greatest originality and the most vigorous temperament cannot force their heads above the crowd. It does not break men’s wills, but softens, bends, and guides it; it seldom enjoins, but often inhibits action; it does not destroy anything, but prevents much being born; it is not at all tyrannical, but it hinders, restrains, enervates, stifles, and stultifies so much that in the end each nation is no more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as its shepherd."
* "It [government] provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, makes rules for their testaments, and divides their inheritances. Why should it not entirely relieve them from the trouble of thinking and all the cares of living? Thus it daily makes the exercise of free choice less useful and rarer, restricts the activity of free will within a narrower compass, and little by little robs each citizen of the proper use of his own faculties."
"Once it [government] leaves the sphere of politics to launch out on this new track, it will, even without intending this, exercise an intolerable tyranny. For a government can only dictate precise rules. It imposes the sentiments and ideas which it favors, and it is never easy to tell the difference between its advice and its commands."
* "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
* "The morals and intelligence of a democratic people would be in as much danger as its commerce and industry if ever a government wholly usurped the place of private associations."
* "The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect."
* "There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
* "Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all." [Democracy in America]
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Leo Tolstoy
* "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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Emilio James Trujillo
"It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure."
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Harry S. Truman
* "A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character."
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Desmond Tutu
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
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Mark Twain
"Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
* "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. It was here first."
"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
* "It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that."
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself."
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
"A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data."
"All the while, the glorious sun pours immaculate free energy down upon us, more than we will ever need. Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?"
* "Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there."
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