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quotes.push("He was born with a gift for laughter and a sense that the world was mad. —Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche");
quotes.push("Die Ros ist ohn warum: sie bluhet, well sie bluhet. —Angelus Silesius");
quotes.push("Roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. —Ralph Waldo Emerson");
quotes.push("Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). —Walt Whitman");
quotes.push("To know and not to act is not to know. —Wang Yang-ming");
quotes.push("The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. —Edith Sitwell");
quotes.push("So much of modern life is a feverish anticipation of future activity and excitement. We have to learn to step back from this into the freedom and possibility of the present. —Dom Bede Griffiths");
quotes.push("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. —Will Rodgers");
quotes.push("My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. —Edith Sitwell");
quotes.push("Take care, then, not consciously to do or say anything which, if all the world were to know it, you could not acknowledge and say, ‘Yes, that was what I did or that was what I said.' —Louis IX of France");
quotes.push("When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. —Shunryu Suzuki");
quotes.push("So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. —Robert Louis Stevenson");
quotes.push("A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history. —Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites");
quotes.push("I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Stephen Leacock");
quotes.push("The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. —Lord Acton, "The History of Freedom in Antiquity"");
quotes.push("The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. —Albert Einstein, "What I believe."");
quotes.push("If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain");
quotes.push("Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure. Where your treasure is, there is your heart. Where your heart is, there is your happiness. — St. Augustine");
quotes.push("Men are hopeless creatures; the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. — St. Augustine , Serm. 19");
quotes.push("God is more inward than your heart. Whithersoever therefore you have fled, there He is. Whither shall you flee from yourself? — St. Augustine ");
quotes.push("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. —Edmund Burke, Letter to William Smith , Jan. 9th, 1795");
quotes.push("I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. — Cicero , Epistolae ad Atticum");
quotes.push("There never was a good war or a bad peace. —Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773 ");
quotes.push("Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. —Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia");
quotes.push("The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. —Samuel Butler");
quotes.push("Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupt absolutely. Great people are almost always bad people, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. —Lord Acton, "Letter to M. Creighton."");
quotes.push("One ought to enter old age the way one enters the senior year at a university, in exciting anticipation of consummation. Rich in perspective, experienced in failure, the person advanced in years is capable of shedding prejudices and the fever of vested interests. —Abraham Heschl ")
quotes.push("Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, counts. —Albert Einstein")
quotes.push("...human kind / Cannot bear very much reality. —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , “Burnt Norton”")
quotes.push("The less government we have, the better — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Politics.”")
quotes.push("Of freedom and of life he only is deserving who every day must conquer them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust ")
quotes.push("God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country. —Mark Twain")
quotes.push("The motto ("In God We Trust") stated a lie. If this nation ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century its entire trust has been in the Republican Party and the dollar — mainly the dollar. — Mark Twain")
quotes.push("How should we be able to forget about those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. —Reiner Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet")
quotes.push("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana")
quotes.push("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. —Karl Marx")
quotes.push("Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken.")
quotes.push("Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. —Anonymous")
quotes.push("No question is so difficult to asnwer as that to which the answer is obvious.—George Bernard Shaw")
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