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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”

“To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ”

— Sigmund Freud

“I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.”

— Dean Acheson

“There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.”

— Arthur Hailey

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.”

— Henry John Kaiser

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“You know you're old if your walker has an airbag. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.”

— Phyllis Diller

“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.”

— Phyllis Diller

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Every old poem is sacred. ”

“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”

“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”

— Coco Chanel

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ”

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