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"Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't always see the pain someone feels."

"We have seen stranger things in dreams;
and fictions are merely frozen dreams,
linked images with some semblance of structure.
They are not to be trusted,
no more than the people who create them."

"Knowledge is knowing. Wisdom is doing."

"Laughter is inner jogging"

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking on the form of a readiness to die." - G.K. Chesterton, 1908

"To all living things there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion." - Ecclesiastes 9:4

"I bend but I do not break." - La Fontaine, 1668

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."- Victor Hugo

"Men reguard it as their right to return evil for evil- and if they cannot they feel they have lost their liberty."- Aristotle, 4th century BC.

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius.

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."- Hector Berlioz, 1850.

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1917.

"When your neighbor's wall is burning it becomes your business."- Horace,2nd BC.

"That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet." Emily Dickenson, poem#1741

"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."- King Baudouin if Belgium,1959.

"If any questions why we died,/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." - Rudyard Kipling, on WWI, 1919.

"It doesn't mean much to me to mean that much to you." - Neil Young.

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is a slavery." - Maximum Gorky, 1903

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch." - Matthew 13:57

"Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, and one the stars." -Fredrick Langbridge,1896.

"Uncontrolled violence is a fault of youth." - Seneca 1st cent. AD.

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts a hand on you, send him to the cemetery." - Malcolm X, 1965.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar, II, ii, 32-33.

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." ~W. C. Fields

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine De Saint Exupery, 1943.

"Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet." - French Proverb

"You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action." -Jerome Bruner

"There are times when even justice brings harm with it." - Sophocles, 5th century B.C.

"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth." Jesse Jackson

"I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted." Jesse Jackson

"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories." Jesse Jackson

"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through." Jesse Jackson

"I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me- toasted and buttered on both sides." Jesse Jackson

"Leadership cannot just go along and get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day." Jesse Jackson

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together." Jesse Jackson

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." Democritus, 5th cent B.C.

"As always, victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan." Count Galeazzo Ciano

"Duh, winning." Charlie Sheen

"God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Bible, Galatians 6:7

"I want to seize fate by the throat" Beethoven, 1801

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Fredrich Nietzche

"Forgive but never forget." JFK 1963

"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life." John Cage, 1961

"Children need models more than they need critics." Joseph Joubert, 1842

"Faint heart never won fair lady." Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605- 1615

"When sorrows come, they come not in single spies,/ But in battalions." Hamlet

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts." Benito Mussolini

"It's a p***s." Kayla

..odd how strangers are all i've ever lived for and the only people i've ever been close to...

List of books I want to read/ own:
1.) We Yevgeny Zenytin
2.) A Brave New World Aldous Huxley
3.) 1984 George Orwell
4.) Anthem Ayn Rand
5.) Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
6.) The Quiet American Graham Greene
7.) A Burnt-Out Case Graham Greene
8.) The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
9.) The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
I will add more as I think of them.

Thanks for listening to my quotes~ <3