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I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.
– Rosa Parks
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
– Galileo Galilei
Humans are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
– Bill Cosby
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?
– Satchel Paige
How long a vigil does historical violence impose on us?
– Carlos Fuentes
How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?
– Grant M. Bright
Hindsight is an exact science.
– Anonymous
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
– Edward Gibbon
He who kneels before God can stand before any man.
– Anonymous
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
– Brazilian saying
He who knows only his own generation remains forever a child.
– Anonymous
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
– Adlai Stevenson
He who understands the “WHY” can live with any “WHAT” or “HOW”.
– Anonymous
He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
– Anonymous
He who defecates on the road will meet flies on his return.
– South African Saying
Happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
– Robertson Davies
He climbs the highest who helps another.
– Anonymous
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
– T.S. Eliot
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
– Anonymous
Great OPPORTUNITIES come to those who make the most of small ones.
– Anonymous
Good fences make good neighbors.
– Robert Frost
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
– Barry LePatner
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
– Plato
Good things happen when you make sure good things happen.
– Anonymous
God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called.
– Anonymous
Going to church and sitting does not make you anymore a Christian than going to a garage and sitting on the floor makes you a mechanic.
– Anonymous
Given any controversial topic, any book about it that reaches the best-seller list is most likely wrong.
– Henry Palka
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
– H. H. Williams
Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies accumulate.
– Anonymous
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
– Anonymous
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