Columnists Quotes - Page 2

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

Molly Ivins

Country, Winning, Talking

Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.141, Vintage

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There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

George Matthew Adams

Success, Encouragement, Character

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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Bill Vaughan

Inspirational, Family, Happy

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I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

Joseph Sobran

Government, Usa, America

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Farrah Gray

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

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It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

Craig Kielburger

Strength, Teamwork, Eye

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I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

Amy Goodman

War, Kids, Thinking

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Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

Marc Kielburger

Our Generation, People, Giving

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Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

Irvin S. Cobb

Eye, Kentucky, Seeing

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

Graduation, Education, Wall

Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Doug Larson

Funny, Courage, Humorous

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

God, Faith, Christian

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Dennis Prager

Courage, Kindness, Honesty

FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 07, 2014

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High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

Linda McQuaig

Class, Focus, Finance

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Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Inspirational, Time, Children

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Weed, Hate, Drinking

FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Love, Life, Marriage

"Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

Love, Funny, Marriage

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Diana Vreeland

Fashion, Real, Life Changing

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A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

J. Frank Dobie

Opportunity, Men, Illinois

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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

Funny, Badass, Anger

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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