Today Quotes
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...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
Assassins!Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), To his orchestra
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.Mother Teresa
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.Tim McGraw
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.Will Rogers, New York Times, Sept 30 1923
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw