Today Quotes
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They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.Janet Reno, February 2, 1998
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spencer
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.Fred Astaire
Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.Euripides
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.Michaelangelo
I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realised I have no character.Charles Barkley, "they said it" in Sports Illustrated
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me,
than in half the creeds.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. 96, ll. 11-12.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.Joseph Conrad
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity