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Emiliano Zapata quote: "It's better to die standing than live on your knees."
It's better to die standing than live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata
You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy. Nicholas Sparks
More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward. . . . . Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts. And so the... Barack Obama
There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered,... Virginia Woolf
There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't they look tempting? I always think that food tastes better outdoors."With that remark," remarked Kismine, "Jasmine enters the Middle class. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. S. Lewis quote: "How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose..."
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself? C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "It is better to forget about yourself altogether."
It is better to forget about yourself altogether. C. S. Lewis
If then this tendency toward collectivization is a mutation there is no reason to suppose it is for the better. It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. John Steinbeck
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. Oscar Wilde
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. Andrew Carnegie
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to..."
It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better. Friedrich Nietzsche
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind? Alan Alda
It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on? Woody Allen
Is that not the perfect visual image of life and death? A fish flapping on the carpet, and a fish not flapping on the carpet. So powerful even a five-year old child with no concept of life and death knew what it meant. Not only did she know Emilio was dead, she knew she had killed him. So she comes running into my room, holding Emilio in both of her little hands - it was so cute - and she wanted me to make Emilio better. And I asked her, why did she step on Emilio? And she said, she didn't... David Carradine
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to..."
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. Jonathan Franzen

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