Carl Sandburg

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

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Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

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Ernest Hemingway

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

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Louise Bogan

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

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Phocion, from Plutarch, Apothegms

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

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Joe

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

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Joseph Brooks

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been.

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Aldous Huxley, unknown

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

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Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

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