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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul.”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

“I think, therefore I am.”

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.”

“The best, and the worst, that can be said of the tempestuous friar is that he loved God so passionately that he had very little love left for man.”

“La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection”

“The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.”

“Modern psychology recognizes what Jesus taught centuries ago: Hate divides the personality and love in an amazing and inexorable way unites it.”

“It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation”

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

“Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now. It was imbecility every time.”

“Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping.”

“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares,and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy.”

“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

“Long live the Cuban revolution! Long live Comrade Fidel Castro!”

“That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.”

“A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.”

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“Though women, as a class, are much less addicted to drunkenness and licentiousness than men, it is universally conceded that they are by far the greater sufferers from these evils.”

“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!”

“I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.”

“We need a continuing presence in space.”

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.”

“I think the Internet is the super-set of all media. It is the be-all and the end-all of all media. One will see print, broadcast, arguably, radio, essentially all media folding into the Internet.”

“The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.”

“Gott kann uns ebensowenig entbehren wie wir ihn.”

“If things aren't not failing you are not innovating enough.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, take it and practice it earnestly. Scholars of the middle class, when they hear of it, take it half earnestly. Scholars of the lowest class, when they hear of it, laugh at it. Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.”

“All, all for immortality,Love like the light silently wrapping all.”

“They will explain themselves — as all poems should do without any comment.”

“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.”

“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”