Thursday, November 24, 2011

If a man like Muhamed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.
- George Bernard Shaw

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
- Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent-many for appointment by the corrupt-few.
- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

Pity the nation... that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
- Khalil Jibran

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Angela Monet

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
- Voltaire

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington (author The Clash Of Civilisations)

'When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the one which open for us.'---Alexandar Graham Bell

'God, grant me the strength to change that I need to change, the patience to accept that which I cannot change, and above all, the wisdom to know the difference.'---
St. Francis of Assisi

'Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.'---Thomas Edison

'Minds are like parachutes, they only work when open.'---Anonymous

'The best way to predict the future is to create it.' ---Peter F. Drucker

'It is no use saying, we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.'--Sir Winston Churchill

'Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new' ---Albert Einstein

'A life without cause is a life without effect' ---Barbarella

'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every dificulty' ---Sir Winston Churchill

'You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not"---George Bernard Shaw

'Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit'---William Shakespeare

'Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.' ---Irving Kristol

'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'---George Bernard Shaw

'You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.'---Peter Sellers

'It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.'---John F. Kennedy

'Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who defuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.'---George Eliot

'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'---Emily Bronte

'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'---Rudyard Kipling

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
William James (1842-1910)

"All the ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of Mankind."
Joseph Conrad

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
Julia Sorel

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