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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)

Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective. (Quote by - Arnold Beisser)

In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Quote by - Marie Von Ebner-eschenbac)

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. (Quote by - Ram Dass)

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy. (Quote by - Jack Kemp)

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. (Quote by - Fran oise Mallet-joris)

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. (Quote by - Lewis Grizzard)

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)

I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. (Quote by - Antonio Banderas)

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. (Quote by - Wayne Calloway)

The cause of freedom is the cause of God. (Quote by - Samuel Bowles)

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. (Quote by - John Locke)

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. (Quote by - Walter Prager)

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. (Quote by - Lord Thomas Dewar)

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. (Quote by - Henry Bolingbroke)

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Quote by - James Halliwell)

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character. (Quote by - John King Fairbank)

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. (Quote by - Eduardo Galeano)

He who dares not (reason)

is a slave. (Quote by - William Drummond)

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. (Quote by - Lawrence D. Bell)

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. (Quote by - John Barbour)

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