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The Bible Flashcards

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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

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Matthew 5:5 Beatitudes

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A Soft Answer Turns away wrath

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Proverbs 15:1 (Solomon)

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Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone

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Matthew 4:4 (Jesus)

Deuteronomy 8:3 (Moses)

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Patriotism is the Last refuge of a scoundrel

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Samuel Johnson

English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.

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A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou

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Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat)

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If I have seen further, it is from standing on the shoulders of giants

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Sir Isaac Newton

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The Proof of the Pudding is in the eating

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Give the Devil has Due

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Miguel De Cervantes

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Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear to Tread

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Alexander Pope

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A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing

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Alexander Pope

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Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast

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Alexander Pope

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In Xanadu Did Kublai Khan a Stately Pleasure Dome Decree

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Kubla Khan)

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Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

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I’ve Loved the Stars to Fondly to be Fearful of the Night

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Galileo Galilei

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15
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Knowledge is Power

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Francis Bacon

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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait

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John Milton

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It wast he Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times

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Charles Dickens (A Tale of TWo Cities)

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IT is a far, far better thing to do than I have ever done

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Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

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It is Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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A room without books is like a body without a soul

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GK Chesterton

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21
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I can resist anything, but temptation

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Oscar Wilde

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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage

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Richard Lovelace

English poet in the seventeenth century

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That which doesn’t kill me makes me stronger

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Fredrich Nietzsche

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If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him

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Voltaire

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25
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I think, Therefore I am

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Rene Descartes

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L’Etat C’est Moi (I am the state)

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Louis 16

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28
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Never Complain and never explain

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Benjamin Disraeli

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29
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

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Benjamin Franklin

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30
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Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks

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Benjamin Franklin

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There was never a good war, or a bad peace

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Benjamin Franklin

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32
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Nothing is Certain but death and taxes

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Benjamin Franklin

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33
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I have not yet begun to fight

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John Paul Jones

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34
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These are the times that try men’s souls

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Thomas Paine (An American Crisis)

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35
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Give me Liberty or Give me Death

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Patrick Henry

he is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War.

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36
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I Regret that I have but one life to give for my country

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Nathan Hale

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37
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Don’t Fire Until You see the Whites of Their Eyes

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William Prescott (Battle of Bunker Hill)

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38
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We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours

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Oliver Hazard Perry (Battle of Lake Erie)

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39
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Gridley, You may Fire When Ready

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Commodore Dewey

Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898

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40
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Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead

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Admiral David Farragut (Battle of Mobile Bay) – Civil War

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41
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My Country, Right or Wrong

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Stephan Decatur

a United States naval officer and Commodore notable for his many naval victories in the early 19th century

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42
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War is Cruelty, You Cannot Refine It

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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43
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An Army Marches on its Stomach

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Napoleon

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44
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is but a step

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Napoleon

45
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Where Ignorance is Bliss, T’is Folly to be wise

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Thomas Grey

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

46
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If winter comes, can spring be far behind

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Percy Bysshe Shelly (Ode to the West Wind)

47
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Hail To They, Blythe Spirit

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To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shely

48
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Our Smile is for People Who have forgotten how to smile

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Mother Teresa

49
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Can’t We All Just Get Along

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Rodney King

50
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I Have a Dream

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Martin Luthar King

51
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God Does not Play Dice with the Universe

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Albert Einstein

52
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There is no such thing as a free lunch

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Milton Freedman

53
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I Saw the best minds of my generation Destroyed by Madness

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Allan Ginsberg (Howl)

54
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Flower Power

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Allen Ginsberg

55
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In the Future Everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes

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Andy Warhol

56
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It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play teh game

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Grantland Rice

an early 20th-century American sportswriter

57
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It Ain;t Over Til It’s Over

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Yogi Berra

58
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Once you Learn to Quit, It Becomes a Habit

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Vince Lombardi

head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s

59
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

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Knute Rockne

coach at the University of Notre Dame. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history

60
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Television is a vast wasteland

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Newton Minow

former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

61
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The medium is the messaeg

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Marshall Mcluhan

Canadian philosopher of communication theory

62
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The Pubic Be Damned

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

63
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The Customer is Always Right

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Marshall Field

64
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An iron curtain has descended across the continent

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Winston Churchill

65
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Power is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac

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Henry Kissinger

66
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Ask Not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

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John. F Kennedy

67
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I would give anything not to be standing here today

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Lyndon B. Johnson

68
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I don’t get ulcers, I give them

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Lyndon Baines Johnson

69
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The Buck Stops Here

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Harry S. Truman

70
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The Business of America is Business

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Calvin Coolidge

71
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We Need To Make the World Safe for Democracy

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Woodrow WIlson

72
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A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

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Abraham Lincoln

73
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable

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Daniel Webster

During his 40 years in national politics, Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years (representing New Hampshire), in the Senate for 19 years (representing Massachusetts), and was appointed the United States Secretary of State under three presidents

best known for negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain; it established the definitive eastern border between the United States and Canada.

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There but for the grace of god, Go I

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John Bradford

e was an English Reformer and martyr. Bradford was in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Mary Tudor for his Protestant faith

75
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Go West, Young Man

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Horace Greeley (Journalist)

76
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent Perspiration

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Thomas Edison

77
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What Happens to A Dream Deferred? Does it Dry Up Like a Raisin in the Sun?

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Langston Hughes (Harlem)

78
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Men Seldom Make Passes Who Wear Glasses

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Dorothy Parker

79
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I Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like

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Will Rogers

An American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world’s best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.

Known as “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son”

Born to Cherokee Nation Family

80
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There is a Sucker Born Every Minute

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PT Barnum

81
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All Power Tends to Currupt, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

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John Acton

was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer

82
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We Need Religion for Religion’s Sake, Morality for Morality’s Sake, and Art for Art’s Sake

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Victor Cousin

a French philosopher. He was a proponent of Scottish Common Sense Realism and had an important influence on French educational policy

83
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How can the consent of the governed be given, if the right to vote be denied

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Susan B. Anthony

84
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs

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Karl Marx

85
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Religion is the Opium of the People

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Karl Marx

86
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Beauty without Grace is the Hook without the bait

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Civilization

87
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God is in his heaven, All’s Right with the World

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Robert Browning

Pippa Passes

88
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Come Grow Old With Me, The Best is Yet to Come

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Robert Browning

Rabbi Ben Ezra

89
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Whosoever Loves, Believes in the Impossible

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Aurora Leigh

90
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The Mass of Men Live LIves of Quite Desperation

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Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

91
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Success is Counted Sweetest by Those Who Ne’Er Succeed

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Emily Dickenson

92
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Because I could Not STop for Death, He Kindly Stopped for Me

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Emily Dickenson

93
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My Candle’s Burning at Both Ends

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

First Fig

94
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A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever

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John Keats

95
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Truth is Beauty

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John Keats

Ode to a Grecian Urn

96
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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned

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William Congreve

The Mourning Bride (1697)

97
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Travel is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness

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Mark Twain

98
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Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that Basket

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Mark Twain

99
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes

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Oscar Wilde

100
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A rose is a rose is a rose

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Gertrude Stein

Sacred Emily

101
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I have promises to Keep and Mikes to Go Before I sleep

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Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

102
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Two Roads Diverged in a wood and I Took the One Less Traveled

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Robert Frost

The Road Less Traveled

103
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Man’s Ego is the Fountainhead of Human Progress

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Ayn Rand

104
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in

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Robert Frost

The death of the hired man

105
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I am teh Master of My Fate, I am the Captian of my Soul

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Ernest Henley

Invictus

106
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East is East and West is west and never the twain shall meet

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Rudyard Kipling

The Ballad of East and West

107
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

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Arthur C. Clarke

108
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There is a sucker born every minute

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PT Barnum

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