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Politics Quotes

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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles De Gaulle

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.” – Eugene McCarthy

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” – Winston Churchill

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” – John Adams

“Politics have no relation to morals.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan

Peace Quotes

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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein

“Peace is its own reward.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Moshe Dayan

“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” – Dalai Lama

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Movies Quotes

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“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” – Clint Eastwood

“All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” – Steve Martin

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.” – David Mamet

“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.” – Billy Wilder

“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.” – Jodie Foster

“A film has its own life and takes its own time.” – Aaron Eckhart

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” – Walt Disney

“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.” – Katharine Hepburn

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.” – Gwyneth Paltrow

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” – Roger Ebert

25 Truth Quotes

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1. “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” – Richard J. Needham
2. “A half truth is a whole lie.” – Yiddish Proverb
3. “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake
4. “No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.” – Francis Bacon
5. “A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.” – Thomas Mann
6. “The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.” – Unknown
8. “I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” – Pietro Ariteno
9. “You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.” – Unknown
10. “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” – Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb.” – Solomon Short
12. “It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don’t mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.” – Neale Donald Walsch
13. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” – Henri-Frederic Amiel
14. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” – Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
16. “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic” – John F. Kennedy
17. “Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.” – Rabindranath Tagore
18. “We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” – Tad Williams
19. “The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.” – Ann Landers
20. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
21. “Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” – George Elliot
22. “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher
23. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity” – Baltasar Gracian
24. “Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” – Martin Luther
25. “Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.” – Chuck Swindoll

SpongeBob Quotes

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“Look at all that warm, toasty fur.” – SpongeBob SquarePants

“It’s like a goldmin, but with fur.” – Patrick

“Gary, you are gonna finish your dessert, and you are gonna like it!” – SpongeBob SquarePants

“This city needs to be destroyed! Or at least painted another color.” – Squidward

“That’s no reason to go ripping people’s heads off boy.” – Mr. Crabs

“I can’t see my forehead!” – Patrick

“Do you smell it? That smell. A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells… smelly.” – Mr. Krabs

“Stupidity isn’t a virus… but it sure is spreadin’ like one!” – Sandy

“He washed my flipper!” – Pearl

“Holographic meatloaf! My favorite!” – Plankton

“People talk loud when they want to sound smart, right?” – Squidward