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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings American Comedian

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

George H. W. Bush American President

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Mohandas Gandhi Indian Leader

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Stephen Breyer American Judge

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

George Henry Lewes English Philosopher

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Montgomery Clift American Actor

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

John Boyd Orr Scottish Politician

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry A. Kissinger German Statesman

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Lorna Luft American Actress

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

Kim Gordon American Musician

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Nathaniel Parker Willis American Author

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.

Thomas Harrison English

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

Joichi Ito Japanese Businessman

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Paul Twitchell American Celebrity

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Susanne Langer American Philosopher

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Ron Reagan American Journalist

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Steve Buyer American Politician

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

Mark Messier Canadian Athlete

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Fay Godwin British Photographer