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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." Dick Cavett 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it." Sydney J. Harris Rate this Quote
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." Albert Einstein 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill." Helen Adams Keller 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry." (Les Miserables)" Victor Hugo 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons." Robertson Davies 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." Sir Thomas Browne 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin 4.4545 average rating Rate this Quote
"Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor." Jeffrey Klein 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." Allen Ginsberg 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance." James Arthur Baldwin 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." Charles Dickens 2.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others." Marquis de Sade 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do." Richard Milhouse Nixon 3.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality." William R(ichard) Allen 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it." Michael J. Gelb 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." Glenda Cloud 4.5333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rate this Quote
"Children are our most valuable natural resource." Herbert Clark Hoover 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." Maya Angelou 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
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