Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. Will Rogers
I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat! Will Rogers
There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out? Will Rogers
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Men are never attached to you by favours. Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is nothing without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics makes strange bed-fellows. Charles Dudley Warner
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. Charles Dudley Warner
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. Charles Dudley Warner
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Charles Dudley Warner
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
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It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation. Carl Sagan
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. Carl Sagan
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost. Jean Baudrillard
You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. Dave Barry
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. Dave Barry
Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbour’s motorised garden tiller. If your neighbour does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. Dave Barry
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry
The best way to begin disarming is to begin – and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal. Lyndon Baines Johnson
The noblest search is the search for excellence. Lyndon Baines Johnson
All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race. Lyndon Baines Johnson
This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort. Lyndon Baines Johnson
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A prudent question is one half of wisdom. Francis Bacon
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. Francis Bacon
Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature’s daemonic law. Camille Paglia
Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. Camille Paglia
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention. Camille Paglia
Women’s sexual powers are enormous. All cultures have seen it. Men know it. Women know it. The only people who don’t know it are feminists. Desensualized, desexualized, neurotic women. Camille Paglia
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When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King, Jr
The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. Martin Luther King, Jr
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr
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