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[Quote No.28552] Need Area: Friends > General "Socialism can only arrive by bicycle." - Jose Antonio Viera Gallo Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28553] Need Area: Friends > General "Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off." - Chris Patten Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28585] Need Area: Friends > General "From those to whom much has been given, much is expected." - Mary Gates The mother of Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates. Quoted from the poignant letter she wrote to Bill's fiancée, Melinda French, in 1993, the year before she died, cluing her in to this, the Gates family credo. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28586] Need Area: Friends > General "All lives have equal value." - Bill and Melinda Gates The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife. This is the credo for their 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28592] Need Area: Friends > General "If virtue precede us every step will be safe." - Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28599] Need Area: Friends > General "No one can wear a mask for very long." - Seneca Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28601] Need Area: Friends > General "Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable." - Seneca Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28606] Need Area: Friends > General "The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error." - Seneca Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28607] Need Area: Friends > General "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28610] Need Area: Friends > General "To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind." - Seneca Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28612] Need Area: Friends > General "Unjust dominion cannot be eternal." - Seneca Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28622] Need Area: Friends > General "He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another." - Seneca Quoted from 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28624] Need Area: Friends > General "Live among men as if God beheld you..." - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Roman dramatist, philosopher and politician. Quoted from 'Epistles'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28625] Need Area: Friends > General "Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Roman dramatist, philosopher and politician. Quoted from 'Epistles'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28627] Need Area: Friends > General "The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed." - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Roman dramatist, philosopher and politician. Quoted from 'Letters to Lucilius', 100 A.D. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28659] Need Area: Friends > General "I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All." - Plotinus (204 - 270 C.E.), one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato. He is generally regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism along with Plato. The quote were his last words as reported in Porphyry’s 'Life of Plotinus'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28670] Need Area: Friends > General "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28687] Need Area: Friends > General "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William A. Ward Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28702] Need Area: Friends > General "Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions." - Aristotle Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28710] Need Area: Friends > General "Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose." - J.S. Habgood Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28716] Need Area: Friends > General "There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience." - Euripides (c. 484 B.C. - 407 B.C.), Greek writer of tragedy. Euripides Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28724] Need Area: Friends > General "In case of dissension [including legal cases and political choices], never dare to judge till you've heard the other side." - Euripides (c. 484 B.C. - 407 B.C.), Greek writer of tragedy. Quoted from his play, 'Heraclidae'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28727] Need Area: Friends > General "There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. [or woman]" - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Greek tragic dramatist. Quoted from his play, 'Medea'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28742] Need Area: Friends > General "He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28746] Need Area: Friends > General "We [Indians] never quarrel about religion, because it is a matter which concerns each man and the Great Spirit." - Red Jacket (c. 1750 – 1830), known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha after 1780, was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28765] Need Area: Friends > General "Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless." - Kenneth Baker (1934 - ), British Conservative Member of Parliament from 1968 to 1997, including being the first Minister for Information Technology. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28775] Need Area: Friends > General "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." - George William Curtis Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28799] Need Area: Friends > General "Politicians are asked to stand, want to sit and are expected to lie." - Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, author, artist, politician and eventually Prime Minister of Britain during World War II. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28801] Need Area: Friends > General "Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows." - Paul Valery Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28802] Need Area: Friends > General "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck." - Richard C. Cushing Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28835] Need Area: Friends > General "Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." - Jacqueline Schiff Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28842] Need Area: Friends > General "[A free press that is able to explore and weigh differing opinions is vital in a society, if its citizens are to make informed rational decisions. If this is not allowed and opinions are uniform everywhere then people should doubt the freedom of the press and thereby draw their own conclusions as to whether they are the victims of propaganda, where...] the whole apparatus for spreading knowledge – the schools and the press, radio and motion picture – will be used exclusively to spread those views which, whether true or false, will strengthen the belief in the rightness of the decisions taken by the authority; and all information that might cause doubt or hesitation will be withheld. The probable effect on the people’s loyalty to the system [winning and controlling their hearts and minds] becomes the only criterion for deciding whether a particular piece of information is to be published or suppressed." - Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), economist and Nobel Prize winner, famous for defending free market and classical liberal (i.e. libertarian) principles. Quoted from his book, 'The Road to Serfdom', published 1944. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28846] Need Area: Friends > General "A week is a long time in politics." - Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Labour Part politician and British Prime Minister between 1964-1970 and 1974-1976. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28847] Need Area: Friends > General "Lord Nelson, the victor at Trafalgar, once observed 'the politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.' Then and now, courtiers attain success not by presenting plausible premises, sound arguments and convincing evidence. They do not proffer reasonable grounds to believe that something is actually true. They make no attempt to appeal to reason; instead, they pander to the basest emotions. Politicians compete to tell people what they want to hear. Facing the electorate, they are ever mindful of popular whims, fears and prejudices. In order to receive the voters’ sympathy, politicians are prepared to sacrifice every principle save one: to say and do anything that’s necessary to assure their (re)election." - Chris Leithner Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28866] Need Area: Friends > General "No one [no company or no country] can build his [her or their] security upon the nobleness of another person [company or country]. [Therefore you are perfectly within your rights, as they are too, in fact you should be required if you are the responsible entity, to take whatever advice and precautions that are prudent.]" - Willa Cather Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28868] Need Area: Friends > General "The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits." - James Harris Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28870] Need Area: Friends > General "By two wings a man [or woman] is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity." - Thomas a Kempis (circa 1380 - 1471), priest, monk and writer, most famous for his book, 'The Imitation of Christ'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28875] Need Area: Friends > General "Every man [or woman] must get to Heaven his [or her] own way." - Frederick The Great (1712-1786), Frederick II of Prussia, called Frederick The Great, was King of Prussia between 1740-1786; during his reign, he was considered among the most enlightened rulers in 18th century Europe. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28877] Need Area: Friends > General "Kings [and governments] have many ears and eyes." - Proverb Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28882] Need Area: Friends > General "[Beware the uncourageous, because...] The weak in courage are strong in cunning. [deceit, disloyalty, etc]" - William Blake Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28884] Need Area: Friends > General "Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent, for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee. The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men. [and women]" - Bible Ecclesiasticus, 12: 2, 3 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28889] Need Area: Friends > General "One of the first precepts students learn in medical school is 'primum non nocere' [that is 'First, do no harm.'] It is just as necessary for the rest of us to learn and follow this in all the aspects of our lives too." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28894] Need Area: Friends > General "Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. [So don't judge a person by what they say - where it is easy to deceive, but by what they do - which is always the ultimate Truth.]" - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28902] Need Area: Friends > General "[If you have ever had to deal with Government bureaucracies you will relate to the following story. It goes a long way to explaining libertarians' desire for less intrusive and more effective, smaller (and therefore lower taxing) governments:] In the year 2008, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States, and said, 'Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save two of every living thing, along with a few good humans.' He gave Noah the blueprints, saying, 'You have six months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for forty days and forty nights.'
Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark. 'Noah!' He roared, 'I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark?' 'Forgive me, Lord', begged Noah, 'but things have changed. I needed a building permit. I've been arguing with the inspector about the need for a sprinkler system. My neighbors claim that I've violated the neighborhood zoning laws by building the Ark in my yard and exceeding the height limitations. We had to go to the Development Appeal Board for a decision. Then the Department of Transportation demanded a bond be posted for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions to clear the passage for the Ark's move to the sea. I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it. Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local trees in order to save the spotted owl. I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls, but no go! When I started gathering the animals, an animal rights group sued me. They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodations were too restrictive and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space. Then the EPA ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood. I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I'm supposed to hire for my building crew. Immigration and Naturalization are checking the green-card status of most of the people who want to work. The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience. To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species. So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark.' Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine and a rainbow stretched across the sky. Noah looked up in wonder and asked,'You mean you're not going to destroy the world?' 'No' said the Lord. 'The government beat me to it'." - Anonymous Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28945] Need Area: Friends > General "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28958] Need Area: Friends > General "Law and equity [fairness] are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. [on some occasions]" - Charles Caleb Colton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28960] Need Area: Friends > General "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill British Prime Minister and Nobel Laureate. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28962] Need Area: Friends > General "Cultivate Virtue in your own person, and it becomes a genuine part of you.
Cultivate it in a family, and it will abide.
Cultivate it in the community, and it will live and grow.
Cultivate it in a state, and it will flourish abundantly.
Cultivate it in the world, and it will become universal." - Lao-tzu Ancient Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism. From his book 'Tao Te Ching' ['Of the Way'] Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28974] Need Area: Friends > General "Force works on servile natures, not the free." - Ben Johnson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28981] Need Area: Friends > General "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." - Thurgood Marshall Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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