Today Quotes
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.Mark Twain
Things are never as bad as they seem.Harper Lee, spoken by character Miss Maudie, To Kill A Mockingbird
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]