Today Quotes
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.Joseph Addison
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.Chinese proverb
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.Chinese proverb
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.Herman Melville
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .Aristophanes
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen