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Willingly Quotes (page 427)

Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred. Walter Raleigh
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful."
The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. Dwight D. Eisenhower
...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals... Warren Bennis
Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went off to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean... Sarah Vowell
When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it! Carol Burnett
Learn, he says, that there will be hours, daysand months ahead of feeling absolutely terribleand nothing can change that; neither newgirlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, orGod. Charles Bukowski
I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"she lights her cigarette withmy lighter and looks at methrough the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think Ican ever pay that price again. Charles Bukowski
Barbara Bush quote: "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick..."
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people. Barbara Bush
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster. William Randolph Hearst
Bob Schieffer quote: "Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong"
Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong Bob Schieffer
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Isaac Asimov
Reinhold Niebuhr quote: "To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy..."
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible. Reinhold Niebuhr
Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. John Kenneth Galbraith
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves. Agatha Christie

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