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The following quotes, not indexed within this database, I recorded at an early time before making adequate bibliographic notations or, on occassion, have read in dictionaries of quotations and have not otherwise verified their source.

Arabic Proverg.
People follow the religion of their kings.
In:  Field, Claud.  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations.  (FIU, Gale Research Co., 1969.; Macmillan Co., 1911), p. 16.
KINGS; PEOPLE; RELIGIONS
19870618

Bacon, Francis.
If a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubs, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
(Unverified)
CERTAINTIES; DOUBT
c1974

Bishop, Jim.
It is difficulty to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past.
(Unverified)
FUTURE, THE; PAST, THE; TIME; TODAY, THE PRESENT
19800106

Bohn, H. G.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
(Unverified)
FOOLS; MISTAKES; WISDOM
c1974.

Bohr, Niels.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
(Unverified)
FUTURE, THE; PREDICTION
19840520

Bolívar, Simón.
The expression 'law and order' is used by those in power, not by us, as a false slogan to justify their abuses.  We are not interested in their law or their order, but only with justice.
(Unverified)
JUSTICE; LAW & ORDER; OPPRESSION; ORDER; SLOGANS
19830800.

Bostan of S'adi.
One in whose head is conceit
Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
(Unverified);
in:  Field, Claud. A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1969/1911), p. 309.
CONCEIT; WISDOM
19870618

Bottome Phyllis.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
(Unverified);
DIFFICULTIES
19870618

Brunner, Emil.
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.
(Unverified).
CHURCH; MISSION
n.d.
Before one can become an evangelist, he mus t first be a human being.
(Unverified).
EVANGELISTS; HUMANS
n.d.

Cabell, Jame Branch.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
(Unverified)
OPTIMISM; PESSIMISM
c1974.

Camus, Albert.
If revolution seeks to correct social injustice, its first act, when power is seized, should be to guarantee a certain freedom in the midst of its efforts to establish a new justice--otherwise the creation of a new and equally intolerable tyranny becomes inevitable.
(Unverified)
DICTATORSHIPS; FREEDOM; JUSTICE, SOCIAL; REVOLUTIONS; TYRANNIES
198830400

Carlyle, Thomas.
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.  They are the chosen possession of men.
(Unverified).
BOOKS; HISTORY; MANKIND'S ACTIVITIES
n.d.

Churchill, Winston.
The American Constitution...no Constitution was written in better English.
(Unverified).
CONSTITUTION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; CONSTITUTIONS; ENGLISH LANGUAGE
n.d.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
(Unverified).
FUTURE, THE; PAST, THE; QUARRELS; TIME; TODAY, THE PRESENT
19740000

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in error.
(Unverified).
ERRORS; FOOLS; HUMAN NATURE; MISTAKES
19740000

Clarke, John H..
To reason upon what is reasonable is always uncertain and often misleading.
Northern Ohio T.U. Co. v. Ohio Ex Rel. Pontius (245 U.S. 574, 592 (1918)),
In:  Gerhart, Eugene C.  Quote It!  (FIU, C. Boardman Co., 1969), p. 539.
LOGIC; REASONABLE; REASONING; UNCERTAINTIES
19881028

Colton.
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
(Unverified).
ADVICE; APPROBATION
n.d.

Conant, James Bryant.
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
(Unverified).
COLLEGES; UNIVERSITIES
n.d.

Confucius.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest:  success comes only later
(Unverified);
DIFFICULTIES; MAN, SUPERIOR; SUCCESS
C. 1974.

Cousteau, Jacques Yves.
Man's curiousity is irresistable; it is its own justification.
(Unverified).
CURIOUSITY
19850601

Demosthenes.
We believe whatever we want to believe.
(Unverified).
BELIEFS; DESIRES; ILLOGIC
n.d.

Disraeli, Benjamin.
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. (1867).
(Unverified).
MONEY; WEALTH
n.d.
Never apologize for showing feeling.  Remember that, when you do so, you apologize for truth.
(Unverified).
APOLOGIES; EMOTIONS; TRUTH
n.d.
Dostoevski, Feodor Mikhailovich.
There is only one thing that I dread:  not to be worthy of my sufferings.
(Unverified).
DREAD; SUFFERING; WORTHY
n.d.

Einstein, Albert.
The concern for man and his destiny must always be the chief interest of all technical effort.  Never forget it among your diagrams and equations.
(Unverified).
CONCERNS; DIAGRAMS; EQUATIONS; MAN & DESTINY; SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY
19740000
There is no defense in science against the weapons which can now destroy civilization.
(Unverified).
CIVILIZATION; DESTRUCTION; NUCLEAR WEAPONS
19740000
Emmons, Nathaniel.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
(Unverified).
HABIT; MASTERS; SERVANTS
19740000
Euripides.
When good men die, their goodness does not perish.
(Unverified).
GOODNESS
19740000

Frankfurter, Felix.
But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Priebe & Sons v. United States (332 U.S. 407, 420 (1947)),
In:  Gerhart, Eugene C.  Quote It!  (FIU, C. Boardman Co., 1969), p. 532.
ANSWERS; BEGGING THE QUESTION; QUESTIONS; TRUTH
19881028
On the question you ask depends the answer you get.
Bay Ridge Qperation Co. v. Aaron (334 U.S. 446, 484 (1948)),
In:  Gerhart, Eugene C.  Quote It!  (FIU, C. Boardman Co., 1969), p. 533.
ANSWERS; ASKING; QUESTIONS; TRUTH
19881028

George, Henry (1839-1897.)
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortune, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
(Unverified) Progress and Poverty;
In:  James, Simon, comp.  A Dictionary of Economic Quotations. (FIUL, Rowman ∓ Allanheld, 1984.), p. 148.
FORTUNES; LUXURY; POVERTY; PROGRESS; WEALTH - DISTRIBUTION
n.d.
What has destroyed every previous civilisation has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. (1879).
(Unverified).
CIVILIZATION - SOURCES OF DESTRUCTION;POWER - DISTRIBUTION; WEALTH - DISTRIBUTION
n.d.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang.
Every man has within himself a continent of undiscovered character.  Happy is he who proves the Columbus of his soul.
(Unverified).
CHARACTER; COLUMBUS; SELF-DISCOVERY
n.d.

Hafiz.
For better in a king one hour in deeds of justice passed,
Than piety and works austere that five-score years should last.
(Unverified),
In: Field, Claud, ed. A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911/1969) p.259.
JUSTICE; KINGS; PIETY
19870618
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he choses to be or not.
(Unverified).
IMPORTANCE; INDIVIDUALS; MAN; PLACE
19740000
Hegel, G.W.F. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich)
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
(Unverified).
HISTORY
19740000
Huxley, Thomas H.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
(Unverified).
DANGERS; KNOWLEDGE
19740000

Junius.
How much easier to be generous than just.
(Unverified).
GENEROSITY; JUSTICE
n.d.

Lee, Robert E.
Duty is the sublimest word in the language, you can never do more than your duty; you should never wish to do less.
(Unverified);
DUTY
n.d.

Leo XIII, (Pope).
No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man.
(Unverified).
HELP; MANKIND; MEN; POOR PEOPLE; RICH PEOPLE; WEALTH
19740000

Levinson, Harry.
Every person who pursues a career, as distinct from a jobholder, should expect to continue his education for the rest of his professional life.
(Unverified).
CAREERS; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; LIFELONG LEARNING
n.d.

Lewis, C.S.
We read to know we are not alone.
(Unverified).
In:  Crosby, Cindy.  By Willoway Brook. (HQ279, Paraclete: 2003), p.62.
CAREERS; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; LIFELONG LEARNING
20040222

Lincoln, Abraham.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.  This is a most valuable and sacred right, a right we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
1948 (Unverified).
FREEDOM; GOVERNMENTS - CHANGE; REVOLTS AND REVOLUTIONS - JUSTIFICATIONS; RIGHTS
19830400

Lombardi, Vince.
Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect.
(Unverified).
PERFECTION; PRACTICE
19750000

Lowell, James Russell.
The best rule for happiness in life, as well as for soundness of judgement in esthetics, is to try and find out why a thing is good rather than why it is bad.
(Unverified).
AESTHETICS; GOOD; HAPPINESS; JUDGEMENT
19740000

Machievelli, Niccolo.
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.
(Unverified).
CHANGE; ENMITY; SUPPORT; SYSTEMS - CHANGE
n.d.

Mann, Horace.
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them to help themselves.
(Unverified).
HELP; SERVICE
19740000

Mencius.
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.
(Unverified).
DECISIONS; RIGHT & WRONG; WILL
19750000

Menninger, Karl.
Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who recieve it.
(Unverified).
HEALING; LOVE
19740000

Merton, Thomas.
To reconcile man with man and not with God is to reconcile no one at all.
"Events and Pseudo-Events," (Unverified).
GOD; MEN; RECONCILIATION
19760000
The men who stir the world most are not always those who lift it most.  To lift a little is better than to stir much.
(Unverified).
CHANGE; GREATNESS; MAN; RAISING; STIRRING; WORLD, THE
19740000

Akhlaq-i-Muhsini.
The bird who has no knowledge of sweet water
Dips his beak all the year in water that is salt.
(Unverified):  Field, Claud.  A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations. (FIUGL, 1911/1969), p. 200.
BIRDS; IGNORANCE; WATER
19870618

Nash, William.
A generous action is its own reward
(Unverified).
GENEROSITY; REWARDS
n.d.

Nietzsche, Friedrich.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
(Unverified).
ENDURANCE; LIFE; MEANING
19740000

Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
In the next war, none of us can count on having enough living to bury our dead.
(Unverified).
BURIALS; DEAD, THE; NUCLEAR WAR
1974

Pasteur, Louis.
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.
(Unverified).
CHANCE; OBSERVATIONS; PREPARATION
n.d.

Paul VI, (Pope).
A war would be an irreversible and fatal occurence.  It would not be the end of difficulties but teh end of civilization.
(Unverified).
CIVILIZATION; ENDINGS; NUCLEAR WAR
1974

Pope, Alexander.
To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves..
(Unverified).
ANGER; REVENGE; SELF-INJURY
n.d.

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph .
Who is entitled to the rent of the land?  The producer of the land, without a doubt.  Who made the land?  God.  Then, proprietor, retire!
What is Property?, trans. Tucker. Chapter III.(Unverified);
James, Simon, comp.  A Dictionary of Economic Quotations.  p. 156.
GOD; LAND; PRODUCTION; PROPRIETORS; RENT
1984

Proverbs, Arabic .
No man ever comes to grief who knows his place.
(Unverified).
GRIEF; HUMILITY; PLACE, PROPER
n.d.

Proverbs, Danish .
Hear one man before you answer, several before you decide.
(Unverified).
ADVICE; DECISIONS
n.d.

Proverbs, Italian.
More trouble is cause by doing nothing than by doing too much.
(Unverified);
DEEDS; LAZINESS; TROUBLE
n.d.

Quintilian, Marcus Fabius.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the lack of opportunity.
unknown source
DEEDS; EVIL; OPPORTUNITIES; TONGUE, THE
19870618

Racine, Jean.
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
La foi qui n'agit point, est-ce une foi sincère>
Athalie, p. ?
in:  Collison, Robert., and Collison, Mary.  Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980), p. 108.
DEEDS; FAITH; SINCERITY
19870618

Raleigh, Sir Walter.
Councils to which Time has not been called, Time will not ratify.
Unknown source
COUNCILS; PLANS; TIME
19730000

Rhodes, Frank H. T.
The ultimate business of education is cultivation of the human mind and the nurture of the human heart.
(Unverified).
EDUCATION; HEART; MIND
n.d.

Roosevelt, Eleanor
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
(Unverified).
INFERIORITY
n.d.

Roosevelt, Theodore
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
(Unverified).
EVIL; EXPEDIENCY
n.d.

Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen.
Everybody is a bit right, nobody is completely right or completely wrong.
(Unverified).
RIGHT & WRONG
n.d.

Rumbold, Richard.
I could never believe that Providence had sent a few men ready booted and spurred to ride and millions ready saddled and bridled to be riden. [Spoken from the scaffold.]
(Unverified).
BOOTED & SPURRED; COMMONERS; NOBLES; SADDLED & BRIDLED
19740000

Shakespeare William.
The spirit that I have seen may be a devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.
Hamlet (Unverified);
APPEARANCES; ATTRACTION; DEVIL, THE
n.d.

Socrates .
Let him who would move the world, first move himself.
(Unverified);
CHANGE; GREATNESS; MAN; WORLD, THE
n.d.

Söderbloom, Nathan.
Saints are persons who make it easier for others to believe in God.
(Unverified).
BELIEF; BOD; SAINTS - DEFINITIONS
19840000

Solon.
Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are.
(Unverified).
CRIME; JUSTICE; VICTIMS
19840000

Steinbeck John.
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.
(Unverified);
BOYS; MANHOOD; MATURITY
n.d.

Syrus, Publius (first century A.D.).
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
(Unverified).
EXCELLENCE; MATURITY
n.d.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
(Unverified).
AVARICE; DESIRES; POVERTY
n.d.

Stevens, William J.
The man who thinks he knows everything about a subject renounces all hope of learning anything more about it.
(Unverified).
EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; SPECIALIZATIONS
n.d.

Whately, Richard.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
(Unverified);
EFFORTS;FAILURES;SUCCESS
n.d.

Young, Whitney, Jr..
We may have come over on different shps, but we're all in the same boat now.
Speech, May 7, 1970;
The Speaker's Almanac, (Unverified).
BOAT, IN THE STAME; IMMIGRANTS; RACISM; SHIPS
19840531

Ziegler, Edward W..
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arrive and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
(Unverified);
DIFFICULTIES
n.d.

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