Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO.
I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every ef...
William F. Buckley, Jr., the end of his 1959 book, _Up from Liberalism_
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.
--Frank Gifford, NY Giants halfback Sports Illustrated July 4, 1960...
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
--Frank Leahy, Notre Dame football coach Look magazine January 10, 1955...
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov...
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. -- Sallust (B.C. 86-34)...
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. -- Samuel Butle
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself
he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. -- Alec Waugh...
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself. -- William Shakespeare
To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
-- Phillips Brook...

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