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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. – Noel Coward	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father. – Clifton Paul Fadiman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way. – Dr. Viktor E Frankl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. – M. Grundler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of. – B. J. Gupta	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. – Alphonse Karr	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. – Charles Krauthammer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television. – Aldo Leopold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is too serious to be taken seriously. – Mike Leonard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. – Haniel Long	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air. – Sir John Lubbock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. – Mickey Mantle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom. – Forest McDonald	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken. – Dr. Karl Menninger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet. – Lyle Myhur	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place. – Tanielle Naus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. – Katherine Paterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out. – Nick Richardson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken. – William Safire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. – Hannah Whitall Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth. – Sara Teasdale	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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