Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I don't want to be considered a hero… Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to… — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, men like Donald Trump need to be given that which they themselves dispense: clear messages. I… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m.… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
...today it is the duty of every thinking being to live, and to serve not only his own day and generation, but… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people,… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
When law enforcement fails to fulfill its most basic duty to protect and serve its citizens, particularly members of a minority community,… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
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Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
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Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Thinking about you is my hobby, Missing you is my concern, Caring for you is my job, Loving you is my duty… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
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I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
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