"One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot."

-- Leonid Brezhnev

#Doe Quotes #Next Quotes #Standing Alone Quotes

“And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.”
“We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.”
“No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through”
“Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.”
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

Source : "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
“While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.”

Source : "Let’s Put It in Writing: Women Are Equal" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.
“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”
“If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.”

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