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Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "The welfare of the people is the highest law"
The welfare of the people is the highest law Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done Meg Cabot
Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn't quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and the dead. Hurry hurry, cream yourself full of dreams to carry you through the life that's waiting for you outside, when you leave here, to help you last a few days more in that nightmare of things and people. Among the dreams, choose the ones most likely to warm your soul. I have to confess that I picked... Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. Albert Camus
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense. Tyler Perry
Get down! Get down!"The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. The survivors, instead of getting down, tried to go back to the small square, and the panic became a dragon's tail as one compact wave ran against another which was moving in the opposite direction, towards the other dragon's tail in the street across the way, where the machine guns were firing without cease. They were penned in, swirling about in a gigantic whirlwind that little by little was... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions. Chuck Palahniuk
Don't listen to me. Advice so rarely finds its inteded audience. It's like the sword in the stone? you leave it there, maybe someday someone finds it useful. Sorry, people? we're driving through lativia and I can't reach for my state of mind. 1. Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way. 2. If you can't dodge the water, run. Dave Eggers
Martin Heidegger quote: "truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong."
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. Martin Heidegger
I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives. Emily Giffin
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about..."
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. Frances Hodgson Burnett
C. S. Lewis quote: "One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut..."
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. C. S. Lewis
he asked, "what makes a man awriter?"well," I said, "it's simple, it's either youget it down on paper or you jump off abridge. writers are desperate people and when they stopbeing desperate they stop beingwriters."are you desperate?"I don't know... Charles Bukowski
Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life - that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it - is proper and common to all. Christopher Hitchens
Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished. Booker T. Washington

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