Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Nelson Mandela
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When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the 'blame America first crowd' didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The ivyed oaks dark shadow fallsOft picking up with wondering gazeSome little thing of other daysSaved from the wreck of time.
John Clare
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
Rahm Emanuel
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All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
Peter Straub
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We felt like we had some other players that fit the role for us and do a lot of things for us. It was a competitive thing.
Joe Gibbs
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When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Jeanne Moreau
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If you're a fan, you can appreciate everything I say.
Lucas Till
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d'Holbach
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
Ed Koch
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson
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Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
Frederik Pohl
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Live, shit, drinking and smoking should be the daily bread of all poets.
Charles Bukowski
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
Oleg Cassini
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'Reformation theology' … pretends to prefer to Pharasaic ostentation a modest invisibility, which in practice means conformity to the world. When that happens, the hallmark of the Church becomes justitia civilis instead of extraordinary visibility. The very failure of the light to shine becomes the touchstone of our Christianity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
Edmund White
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I think a big part of being a success is confidence. Just look at me, I know I'm successful, and I am.
Zach Braff
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
Peter Straub