Today's Famous Quotes

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Harry S Truman


You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Herbert Mitgang


Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

William James Durant


The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Alexander Pope


Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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 streetsweeper who did his job well.

Jerome Seymour Bruner


The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

John H. Patterson


An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Harry Morris Warner


Who the hell wants to hear actors talk

Robert Frost


I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

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