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Ten Random Quotes

"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
Kelly Miller

"I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel."
James Humes

"This sharp increase in the number of the poor worsens our concern and anxieties on the real nature of the New World Order."
Mathieu Kerekou

"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
Charles Schulz

"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
Samuel Johnson

"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
Nicholas Murray Butler

"All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom."
Publilius Syrus

"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
Joseph Brodsky

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
Ayn Rand

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