All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sigmund Freud Quotes
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud
Robert Kennedy Quotes
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. - Robert Kennedy
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. - Elbert Hubbard
Robert Kennedy Quotes
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. - Robert Kennedy
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas A. Edison
James Allen Quotes
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen
Benjamin Disraeli Biography
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| Disraeli in 1878 |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Anaxagoras Quotes
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. - Anaxagoras
Lucille Ball Quotes
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. - Lucille Ball
Ronald Reagan Quotes
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. - Ronald Reagan
George Washington Quotes
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington
Carl Jung Quotes
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. - Carl Jung
Lucille Ball Quotes
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. - Lucille Ball
Clint Eastwood Quotes
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. - Clint Eastwood
Robert Kennedy Quotes
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? - Robert Kennedy
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. - William Makepeace Thackeray
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. - George Bernard Shaw
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. - Thomas A. Edison
Charles Darwin Biography
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| Darwin, aged 45 in 1854 |
He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public accepted evolution as a fact.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. - William Makepeace Thackeray
David Livingstone Quotes
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. - David Livingstone
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison
Anaxagoras Quotes
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. - Anaxagoras
William Shakespeare Quotes
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare
Lucille Ball Quotes
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. - Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball Quotes
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. - Lucille Ball
Anaxagoras Quotes
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. - Anaxagoras
George Washington Quotes
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. - George Washington
Clint Eastwood Quotes
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. - Clint Eastwood
William Shakespeare Quotes
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Quotes
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. - William Shakespeare
Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Lenny Bruce Quotes
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. - Lenny Bruce
George Washington Quotes
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington
Lenny Bruce Quotes
A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. - Lenny Bruce
Tony Robbins Quotes
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. - Tony Robbins
Lenny Bruce Quotes
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. - Lenny Bruce
George Washington Quotes
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington
Carl Jung Quotes
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. - Carl Jung
Clint Eastwood Quotes
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. - Clint Eastwood
Carl Jung Quotes
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung
Margaret Mead Quotes
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. - Margaret Mead
Edward de Bono Quotes
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. - Edward de Bono
Shakti Gawain Quotes
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. - Shakti Gawain
Winston Churchill Quotes
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotes
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
Nelson Mandela Quotes
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. - Nelson Mandela
Napoleon Hill Quotes
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill
Margaret Mead Quotes
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. - Margaret Mead
Douglas MacArthur Quotes
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. - Douglas MacArthur
Groucho Marx Quotes
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. - Groucho Marx
Edward de Bono Quotes
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. - Edward de Bono
Winston Churchill Quotes
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill
Judy Garland Quotes
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. - Judy Garland
J. K. Rowling Quotes
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. - J. K. Rowling
John F. Kennedy Quotes
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. - John F. Kennedy
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. - Alfred Hitchcock
David Brinkley Quotes
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system. - David Brinkley
Alexander Pope Quotes
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. - Alexander Pope
Bob Marley Quotes
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. - Bob Marley
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. - Alfred Hitchcock
Abraham Lincoln Biography
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| Abraham Lincoln at age 54, 1863 |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
Jerry Seinfeld Quotes
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me. - Jerry Seinfeld
Andrew Carnegie Quotes
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. - Andrew Carnegie
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. - Benjamin Disraeli
Bob Marley Quotes
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. - Bob Marley
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. - Alfred Hitchcock
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. - Benjamin Disraeli
J. K. Rowling Quotes
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. - J. K. Rowling
Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. - Andrew Carnegie
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? - Alfred Lord Tennyson
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