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[Quote No.27566] Need Area: Friends > General "In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill." - Winston Churchill British Prime Minister during the Second World War 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.27577] Need Area: Friends > General "Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end." - Unknown 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.27587] Need Area: Friends > General "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - Henry David Thoreau 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.27599] Need Area: Friends > General "It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity." - Seneca (circa 4 B.C. – A.D. 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.27615] Need Area: Friends > General "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian Political and Spiritual Leader 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.27629] Need Area: Friends > General "Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance." - Benjamin Franklin 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.27633] Need Area: Friends > General "Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. [to deceive the unwary, gullible and naive until it is too late.]" - Benjamin Franklin 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.27636] Need Area: Friends > General "A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - St. Basil (329-379), Bishop of Caesarea 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.27642] Need Area: Friends > General "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people." - Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), first Prime Minister of independent India from 1947 to 1964). 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.27648] Need Area: Friends > General "Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Honore De Balzac 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.27649] Need Area: Friends > General "Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." - Eric Hoffer 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.27656] Need Area: Friends > General "Do not do to others what you would not like others to do to you." - Hillel 50 BCE 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.27657] Need Area: Friends > General "Act toward others as you desire them to act toward you." - Isocrates 388 BCE 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.27658] Need Area: Friends > General "Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for another's welfare as your own." - Aristippus of Cyrene 365 BCE 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.27659] Need Area: Friends > General "We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us." - Aristotle 385 BCE 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.27660] Need Area: Friends > General "[Ethics, morality, empathy and reciprocity:] What you wish your neighbours to be to you, such be also to them." - Sextus the Pythagorean 406 BCE 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.27661] Need Area: Friends > General "[Ethics, morality, reciprocity and Golden Rule - Don't do to others what don't want others to do to self:] Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." - Thales (circa 624 B.C. – circa 546 B.C.), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages. As quoted in 464 BCE. 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.27662] Need Area: Friends > General "[Morality and ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated:] Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not do unto another what you would not have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest." - Confucius circa 500 BCE 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.27663] Need Area: Friends > General "Do not to your neighbour what you would take ill from him." - Pittacus 650 BCE 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.27664] Need Area: Friends > General "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." - Bible Mark 12:31, Matthew 19:19, Matthew 22:39, Romans 13:9
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[Quote No.27665] Need Area: Friends > General "...love your neighbour as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you." - The Didache (from a Greek word related to 'doctrine', 'didactic', etc.): an early Christian work, also called the Teachings of the 12 Apostles. 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.27705] Need Area: Friends > General "If you can't pay the fine or do the time, then don't do the crime." - Unknown 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.27717] Need Area: Friends > General "The pious pretence that evil [embodied in selfish disregard for others' feelings and welfare] does not exist only makes it [more] vague, enormous and menacing." - Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947), British occultist, writer, mountaineer, philosopher, poet, and mystic. 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.27720] Need Area: Friends > General "Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. {nature and nurture]" - Blaise Pascal 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.27721] Need Area: Friends > General "One can always win a war, but how does one conquer [or win the] peace?" - Michael Holmboe Meyer 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.27739] Need Area: Friends > General "As you have sown, so shall you reap. [What goes around, comes around! Life is a boomerang. In the end, life is about justice and people get what they deserve.]" - Bible Galations 6:7 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.27793] Need Area: Friends > General "The first panacea of a mismanaged government is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring more permanent ruin." - Ernest Hemingway 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.27847] Need Area: Friends > General "Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. [with nowhere to hide and no way to avoid the punishment.]" - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.27867] Need Area: Friends > General "Without moral and intellectual independence [freedom], there is no anchor for national independence [freedom]." - David Ben-Gurion 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.27869] Need Area: Friends > General "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children." - Martin Luther King (1929-1968), American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964 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.27882] Need Area: Friends > General "The one thing that doesn't abide [live] by majority rule is a person's conscience." - Harper Lee (1926 - ), American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. 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.27891] Need Area: Friends > General "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Salvor Hardin 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.27895] Need Area: Friends > General "[It is important to remember that] The number-one objective of politicians [rather than statesmen and women] is to get reelected, and they fully recognize that telling the truth [if unpleasant] would get them booted off the... gravy train rather quickly." - Robert Ringer best-selling author 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.27900] Need Area: Friends > General "Travel teaches tolerance. [by discovering we are all human with more good similarities than bad differences.]" - Benjamin Disraeli 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.27903] Need Area: Friends > General "[Morality and ethics:] The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. [A pure life involves the getting and following of wisdom.]" - Epictetus 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.27931] Need Area: Friends > General "Government service is the highest form of citizenship." - Sidney Weinberg Investment banker with Goldman Sachs, often called ‘Mr. Wall Street’. 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.27968] Need Area: Friends > General "[When considering trusting someone remember the old saying] Whoever takes a snake for a bedfellow must be prepared to be bitten." - Old Saying 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.27977] Need Area: Friends > General "Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies." - The Talmud 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.27978] Need Area: Friends > General "The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development [education] of its people's intelligence." - Luis Albert Machado 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.27980] Need Area: Friends > General "Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it." - Honore de Balzac 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.27992] Need Area: Friends > General "Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense." - Marcus T. Cicero 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.27994] Need Area: Friends > General "The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness." - Christian Nevell Bovee 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.27995] Need Area: Friends > General "The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be:
But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. [It is well to remember this when trying to decide if someone should be forgiven or trusted, especially regarding law-breakers, crime, punishment and probation. Despite what they say, they are sometimes only sorry they got caught and punished. They have still not developed empathy, self-discipline or good character.]" - Walter Brower 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.27996] Need Area: Friends > General "There are two freedoms: the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought." - Charles Kingsley 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.28006] Need Area: Friends > General "There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will." - Grenville Kleiser 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.28015] Need Area: Friends > General "The measure of a man's real character [and morality] is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out." - Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859), American Essayist and Historian 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.28046] Need Area: Friends > General "A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground." - English Saying 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.28047] Need Area: Friends > General "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater 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.28050] Need Area: Friends > General "Impudence [boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum] is the worst of all human diseases." - 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.28052] Need Area: Friends > General "[Poem:]
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
" - Alexander Pope 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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