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We will create a civilisation of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Barlow

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

Our batsmen have to get the runs so that our bowlers can get the 20 wickets
Rahul Dravid

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be
Walter Landor

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
George Grenville

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Brown

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar Bush

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles Hare

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin

Paula Radcliffe has thrown all her eggs mentally into the marathon basket
Graham Beecroft

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South

The government in Saigon is a travesty.
George W Ball

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow

Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.
Jeff Thomson

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

Man... hath by nature a power .... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.
John Locke

I can honestly say at this moment in time I do not have an interest in women or related things.
Johnny Greenwood

The Queen mentioned that some of us smelled as though we had been drinking (after being honoured at Buckingham Palace)
Josh Lewsey

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
Charles Dickens

Seriously, I have to play a tournament next week in Newport. I have no more rackets now [after throwing his rackets in the crowd]
Michael Llodra

A small number of individuals are giving the idea there is a big rift in the Labour party [understatement of the year]
Ann Clwyd

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel [on retirement]
Andre Agassi

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman Mailer

Rich men are too influential at Downing Street.
Jack Dromey

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior

What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be.
Douglas Jerrold

No one will believe this, but me and Demi only had one argument during the first three months we were seeing each other and since then we haven't had one.
Ashton Kutcher

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon]
Maria Sharapova

Antitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis.
Harold Greene

I was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.

Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi Annan

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women
Karl Kraus

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

People can use their accounts and carry on making their mortgage payments in the usual way [on Northern Rock crisis]
Alistair Darling

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus

Protecting national security is the Government's top priority.
Tony McNulty

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Fred Allen

Every country has the government it deserves.
Joseph De Maistre

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place
Billy Crystal

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
Julia Margaret Cameron

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John Gardner

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David Ogilvy

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley



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