QUOTATIONS GALORE

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Classic Quotes by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) American author

**A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. **
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**A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. **
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**A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. **
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*Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. *
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**Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. **
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**Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. **
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**Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. **
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**Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. **
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**Hemingway's remarks are not literature. **
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**I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. **
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**I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. **
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**I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. **

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Classic Quotes by Federico Fellini (1920-1993) Italian film director

**A different language is a different vision of life. **
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**All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. **
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**Censorship is advertising paid by the government. **
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**Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. **
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**Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. **
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**It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. **
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**You exist only in what you do. **

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Classic Quotes by Anas Nin (1903-1977) American writer

**A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. **
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**Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. **
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**And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. **
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**Dreams are necessary to life. **
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**Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. **
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**Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. **
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**Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. **
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**Good things happen to those who hustle. **
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**He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. **
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**How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. **
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***I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

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*Classic Quotes by Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966) American admiral *

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. :)
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**God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. **
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**Uncommon valor was a common virtue. **
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**Three favorite rules of thumb: Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicality in terms of materiel and supplies? **
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**As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! **
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**That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. **

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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**Classic Quotes by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) English public official and celebrated diarist **

**As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! **
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**I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it. **
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**I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition. **
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**Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. **
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**Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. **
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**Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. **
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**Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. **
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**Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. **
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***Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

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*Classic Quotes by Ansel Adams (1902-1984) American Photographer *

**A good photograph is knowing where to stand. **
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**A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. **
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**A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. **
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**A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. **
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**Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. **
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**Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. **
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**I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. **
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**I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation. **
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***I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

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It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be?
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends". - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." - Angela Monet

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington (author The Clash Of Civilisations)

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
- "Michael Jordan

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

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Classic Quotes by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist

**A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. **
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**A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. **
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**A library implies an act of faith. **
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**A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. **
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**A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion. **
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**Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. **
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**All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. **
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**An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. **
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**An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. **
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**Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. **
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**As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. **

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Classic Quotes by Alexander Bell (1847-1922) American Inventor

***A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. ***
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***Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ***
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***What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists…and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want…and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. ***
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***When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ***

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**Laughter is to life what shock
absorbers are to automobiles.
It won't take the potholes out of
the road, but it sure makes the
ride smoother. **

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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.
**Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

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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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:bism: :salam:

Here are some of my favourite quotes:

Leonidas when asked by Hydarnes, commander of Xerxes royal bodyguard the Immortals to give up his weapons.

Hydarnes- “Your position is hopeless, lay down your weapons and you will be spared”
Leonidas-“you wan’t my weapons?
Come and get them!”:2guns:

Sun Tzu said in his 13 chapter book, the Art of War.

                      "Always pray for peace, but be prepared for war.....
                     When the enemy advances, you must retreat.
                     When he retreats, you must advance,
                     Make your Attack your defense,
                      Your defense your attack......":sleep2:

Aciabades replied to the messenger who told him he had been declared a dead man by the Athenian Demos:

                              "I'll Show them i'm alive!":mad2:

At the battle of Badr the kuffar sent three of thier champions forward for single combat from the Muslim ranks after three Ansar had been sent back.
Rasool-Allah:saw2: said at Badr.
“Kum Ya Ali!”:razi2:
“Where is Ali:razi2:! Send forth Ali:razi2:!”

The siege of Delhi in the war of Independance (1857-58) Mualana Fazle-e-Haq Hairabadi said:

                 "So what if we are cut down!
                     Let them string us up!
                    Let them go ahead and blast our bodies!
                    We will not compromise our faith with anyone!"

And on a more lighter note…

                       "Chaar yaar da nam kin?"
         **    Q**          Name the four friends ? (of Rasoolallah :saw2:)
                        
             ** A**   "Yaar yaro noo jande, apna kaam kar!"

                   Friends know each other get on with your work!

Thats it for now. But more may follow soon.

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**"What lies behind us **
**and **
**what lies before us **
**are tiny matters compared to **
what lies within us."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist

Timepass-Jan 2013
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Classic Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) American Jurist

**A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. **
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**A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. **
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**A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. **
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**A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. **
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**A new untruth is better than an old truth. **
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**A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. **
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**A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. **
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**A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. **
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**A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. **
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**Apology is only egotism wrong side out. **
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**As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. **

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CLOCK QUOTES
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You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden

Three o'clock is always too late or
too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 - 1980

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by
little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere
change and no wealth.
- Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 - 1941

**In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, **
Leonardo da Vinci and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years
of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Orson Welles, 1915 - 1985

***Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
- Sam Levenson, 1911 - 1980

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**Classic Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), American playwright and diplomat **

**A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery. **
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**A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. **
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**Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. **
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*Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes"; *
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**But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain? **
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**Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. **
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**Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. **
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**Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. **
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**I'm in my anecdotage. **
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**In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. **

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Tahirul Qadri's long march
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**Classic Quotes by Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) American electrical engineer and physicist **

**A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. **
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**Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. **
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**If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. **
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**Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. **
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*The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
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•^•^•^• Ik Pagal Sa Larka Tha...!!!
•^•^•^• Ik Pagal Sa Larka Tha...!!!
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***Classic Quotes by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) US poet and newspaper editor

**"What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind's restless wings, When, from the orchard-row, he pours Its fragrance through our open doors; A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree." **
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**"When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky." **
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**"The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear." **
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**"Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen." **
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**"Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat." **
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**"Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; White are his shoulders and white his crest." **
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**"Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep." **
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***"No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn."

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Classic Quotes by Gloria Swanson (1899-1983) American movie actress
*(Her grand-daughter has acted in Shahzad's movie "BOTAL GALI") *

**Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. **
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**I am big. It's the pictures that got small. **
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**I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. **
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**All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. **
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***When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

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Classic Quotes by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist and poet

**A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. **
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**A forest bird never wants a cage. **
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**A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. **
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**A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. **
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**A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. **
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**Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well. **
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**Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." **
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**Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." **
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**I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! **
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**In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. **

Dil Ney Teray Baarey Mein POocha tO bOht rOya
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Happiness is not something you find, It's something you create.

Nothing in this world is IMPOSSIBLE as the word is "I M POSSIBLE".

LIFE IS NO WHERE - can be read as - LIFE IS NOW HERE.