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"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."	Herbert Butterfield
"Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth."	Charles Anderson Dana
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."	Thomas Alva Edison
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way."	Gurdjieff
"War will cease when men refuse to fight."	F. Hansen
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality."	James Joyce
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."	Franz Kafka
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."	Irving Layton
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."	Lord Melbourne
"There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell." (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."	Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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George Burton Adams	George Foreman	George Herbert Walker Bush
Gerald R. Ford	Golda Meir	Gurdjieff
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James Corbett	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Joyce
James Russel Lowell	Joe Moore	John Locke
John B. Gough	John Fellows Akers	John K. Hutchens
John Paul Jones	Joseph Joubert	J. Deville
J. Martin Kohe	Kathleen Norris	Leonardo da Vinci
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Max Lucado
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Napolean Bonaparte	Omar Khayyám	Pan Ku
Paulo Freire	Paxton Blair	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Rita Mae Brown	Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Butler	Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Tao Le Ching	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher	T. Lehrer
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton	William Lloyd Garrison