Today Quotes
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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rareTheodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.Madame de Tencin
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.A. F. Shaw
Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin
They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.Steven Wright
