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A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
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You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
When we make college more affordable,
we make the American dream more achievable.
- William J. Clinton
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Let me say this as clearly as I can:
No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt,
there is no justification for killing innocents.
- William J. Clinton
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think,
and that's the time when they most need to think.
- William J. Clinton
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most...
I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
- William J. Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America
that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web...
Now even my cat has its own page.
- William J. Clinton
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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