Ten Random Quotes

"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
Niccolo Machiavelli

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
Woodrow Wilson

"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
Bill Maher

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
W. Clement Stone

"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
Winston Churchill

"How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite."
Voltaire

"Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things."
Pablo Picasso

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
Robert Byrd

"The road turns and the town suddenly springs into view, presenting itself like a crown roast of lamb served up on a bed of fresh spring greens."
Maria Donovan

"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
Edward Young

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