Today Quotes
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Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995
One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Originality is merely an illusion.M. C. Escher
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?Frank Herbert, Dune
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a RealistAntony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.W. H. Auden
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.William Shakespeare, Henry V
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.Joseph Addison, Cato
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe