QUOTATIONS GALORE

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Classic Quotes by Bruce Lee (1940-1965) Martial artist, actor

**"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!" **
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**"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential." **
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**"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." **
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**"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." **
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**"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." **
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**"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." **
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***"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

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Take a look.... This has been told 1400yrs ago!!!!

**** Camels will no longer be used as a means of transport;
* People will ride on saddles that aren't saddles (cars?)

  • The distance on earth will become short;

    • Horses will not be used in wars;

  • Muslims will defeat the Byzantines which will end with the conquest of Constantinople Istanbul);

    • The Jews will gather again to live in Bilad Canaan;

  • Very tall buildings will be built;

    • The disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance, with much killing;

  • Adultery will become widespread, and the drinking of wine will become common;

    • The number of men will decrease and the number of women will increase until there are 50 women to be looked after by one man.

  • Islam will become worn out like clothes are, until no one will know what fasting, prayer, charity and rituals are;

    • Allah will send a disease to fornicators that will have no cure (Aids?);

  • People will begin to believe in the stars and reject AL QADAR (THE DIVINE DECREE OF DESTINY);

    • Men will pass by people's graves and say: 'Would that I was in his place'; (large amount of suicidal deaths?)

  • The Euphrates will uncover a mountain of gold for which people will fight over (the river of Alfurat that lies near Syria );

    • Two large groups of people will fight one another, and there will be many casualties; they will both be following the same religion World War II?);

  • Approximately 30 DAJJALS will appear, each one claiming to be the messenger of ALLAH;

    • Earthquakes will increase; * Time will pass quickly;

  • Afflictions will appear;

    • Killing will increase;
    • Wealth will increase;
    • Women will be wearing clothes but not wearing clothes

THE PROPHET (saw) SAID: 'IF MY UMMAH BEARS 15 TRAITS (QUALITIES), TRIBULATION WILL FOLLOW IT.' (DAY OF JUDGEMENT) SOMEONE ASKED,'WHAT ARE THEY O MESSENGER OF ALLAH?' HE (saw) SAID:

  • When any gain is shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor;

    • When a trust becomes a means of making profit;

  • When paying ZAKKAT becomes a burden;

    • When voices are raised in the mosque;

  • When the leader of a people is the worst of them; when people treat a man with respect because what he may do;

    • When much wine is drunk; red wind or the earth swallow them, or to be transformed into animals.'

  • 'IMRAN IBN HUSAYN SAID: 'THE PROPHET (AS) SAID, 'SOME PEOPLE OF THIS UMMAH WILL BE SWALLOWED BY THE EARTH, TRANSFORMED INTO ANIMALS, AND SOME WILL BE BOMBARDED WITH STONES'. ONE OF THE MUSLIMS ASKED, WHEN WILL THAT BE O MESSENGER Of ALLAH?' HE SAID, 'WHEN SINGERS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WILL BECOME POPULAR, AND MUCH WINE IS DRUNK.'' THE GREATER SIGNS OF THE HOUR The Quran will disappear in one night, even from the people's hearts, and no Ayah will be left on earth. (Some groups of old people will be left who will say: 'We heard of fathers' saying 'LAILLAHA ILLA ALLAH' so we repeat it);

  • The appearance of the MAHDI;

  • The appearance of the DAJJAL (Anti Christ); * The appearance of Ya'juj and Ma'juj (biblical Gog and Magog);

  • Isa (Jesus) will come during the time of Dajjal;

  • The rising of the sun from the west;

  • The destruction of the Ka'ba and the recovery of its treasures;

  • The smoke.

Do you give up? Think about it.... Are you going to forward this, or delete it?
Just remember- Allah is watching you. ***
**Prayer Wheel lets see the devil stop this one! Here's what the wheel is all about. When you receive this, say a prayer for the person that sent it to you.... There are no costs, but wonderful rewards.... **
Let's continue praying for one another.
**As we look at this article we realize how true the Messenger (P.B.U.H ) was these signs were prophesized 1400 years ago!!! **

**Now you have two options here: **
***1- Leave this message & sit here. No curse or whatever may happen to you (Insha-Allah)
2- Copy-Paste this to a number of people you know and by the grace of Allah you will be blessed for each person you forward this via e-mail to.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS, THIS IS A REWARD.***

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*Classic Quotes by Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) US cartoonist *

**"In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back." **
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**"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." **
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**"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand." **
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**"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life." **
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**"It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere." **
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**"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed." **
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**"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up." **
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**"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." **

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Classic Quotes by William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet

**"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you." **
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**"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death." **
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**"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers." **
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**"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire." **
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**"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white." **
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**"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?" **
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**"Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place." **
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***"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

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*Classic Quotes by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher *

**"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." **
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**"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them." **
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*"The world would be happier if women had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak" *
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**"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward" **
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**"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." **
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**"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil." **

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Classic Quotes by Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Statesman, Soldier, and Author

**"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." **
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**"A joke is a very serious thing." **
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**"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." **
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**"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." **
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**"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." **
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**"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." **
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**"Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production." **
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**"Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack." **
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**"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." **

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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; **
*but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter *
*and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
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***Charlotte Bronte*
(1816-1855)

KuRiyan Lahore Diyan
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*In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful Asalam aleikum wa rehamtulah wa barakatuhu *

*The month of dhuj hijjah is upon us alhumdulilah. Our brothers and sisters are going for hajj and may they remember us all in their duas inshaAllah. May the hajj of everyone be accepted amin and may we all be blessed through the mercy of Allah subhana wa taala to perform hajj too amin. *

*--------------------------------------------Sahih Al - Bukhari HadithVolume 2, Book 26, Number 594: Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (sallalahu alyhi wa salam) was asked, "Which is the best deed?" He said, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle." He was then asked, "Which is the next (in goodness)?" He said, "To participate in Jihad in Allah's Cause." He was then asked, "Which is the next?" He said, "To perform Hajj-Mabrur. " *

*------------------------------------------- Sahih Al - Bukhari HadithVolume 2, Book 26, Number 595: Narrated 'Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her): (the mother of the faithful believers) I said, "O Allah's Apostle! We consider Jihad as the best deed." The Prophet (sallalahu alyhi wa salam) said, "The best Jihad (for women) is Hajj Mabrur. " *

*------------------------------------- Sahih Al - Bukhari HadithVolume 2, Book 26, Number 621: Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar : The Talbiya of Allah's Apostle (sallalahu alyhi wa salam) was : 'Labbaika Allahumma labbaik, Labbaika la sharika Laka labbaik, Inna-l-hamda wan-ni'mata Laka walmu Lk, La sharika Laka' (I respond to Your call O Allah, I respond to Your call, and I am obedient to Your orders, You have no partner, I respond to Your call All the praises and blessings are for You, All the sovereignty is for You, And You have no partners with you. *

All praises are for Allah subhana wa taala the owner of the heavens and the earth.

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*Classic Quotes by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist *

**"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth." **
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**"A women's most open actions have a secret side to them." **
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**"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions." **
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**"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind." **
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**"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation." **
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**"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line." **
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**"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." **
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**"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs." **
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**"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." **
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**"Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world." **

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*Classic Quotes by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) English author *

**"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness." **
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**"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity." **
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**"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be" **
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**"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." **
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**"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are." **
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**"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak" **
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**"No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors." **

Congratulate Sweetypari on her 1k posts
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*Classic Quotes by Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) 8th President of the United States *

**"To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government." **
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**"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor." **
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**"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity" **
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**"No evil can result from its (slavery's) inhibition more pernicious than its toleration" **
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**"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it." **
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**"Unlike all who have preceded me, the Revolution that gave us existence as one people was achieved at the period of my birth; and whilst I contemplate with grateful reverence that memorable event, I feel that I belong to a later age and that I may not expect my countrymen to weigh my actions with the same kind and partial hand." **
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**"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies." **
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**"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success." **
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**"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." **
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**"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it." **
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***"There is a power in public opinion in this country and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."

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**Paul Mccartney **

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells:)
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do,
And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.***

Dr. Seuss

Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

***and

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do
And they will surprise you with their ingenuity.***

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I have had the opportunity to meet Mr. Chomsky in Karachi at the evening organized in his honor by Amina Syed of OUP (Oxford University Press-Pakistan)

-Raju

Classic Quotes by Noam Chomsky (1928- ) US educator and linguist

**"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." **
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**"American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics." **
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**"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." **
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**"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." **
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**"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." **
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**"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." **
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**"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." **
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**"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." **
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**"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system." **

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*Classic Quotes by Ira Gershwin, US lyricist *

"Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state" *
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*"A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O." *
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*"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."**
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*"Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair." *
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*"I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man - Who could ask for anything more?"
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*Classic Quotes by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) Russian Writer *

**"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." **
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**"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press." **
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**"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever." **
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**"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either." **
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**"I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory." **
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**"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?" **
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**"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." **

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*Classic Quotes by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet *

**"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." **
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**"A wounded deer leaps the highest." **
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**"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs." **
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**"Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat." **
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**"Beauty is not caused. It is." **
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**"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes" **
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*"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent." *
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**"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?" **
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*"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate." *
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**"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." **
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**"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture." **
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**"For Love is Immortality." **

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Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination,
of what you would like to do or be.

Raju's Roses Club
*Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often
Smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
*

The first thing that comes to your mind !
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*Classic Quotes by Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) American singer, actor *

**"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels." **
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**"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent." **
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**"Here's to the confusion of our enemies!" **
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**"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." **
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**"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out." **
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**"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine." **
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**"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear." **
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**"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth." **
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**"The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but 'playing' the voice like those instrumentalists." **

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*Classic Quotes by Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American Statesman *

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

**A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. **
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**A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. **
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**A hungry man is not a free man. **
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**A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. **
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**A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. **
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**Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. **
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**After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. **
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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*Classic Quotes by Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American Abolitionist *

**A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. **
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**Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. **
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**I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. **
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**I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. **
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**If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. **
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**It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. **
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**One and God make a majority. **
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**Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. **
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**The soul that is within me no man can degrade. **
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**The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. **
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**Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. **
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**When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. **

Timepass- December 2012
Timepass- December 2012