Today Quotes
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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.William Shakespeare, Richard III
All true wealth is biological.Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.Kahlil Gibran
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.John Milton, Paradise Lost
On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun
Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)