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| ... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard? |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), First Lady of the United States, author, speaker, and diplomat. As quoted in Eleanor and Franklin, ch. 27, by Joseph P. Lash (1971). Written in 1925; Roosevelt’s husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, would be elected President in 1932 and would serve through the “next war:” World War II. ~ |
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| The women pardon'd all except her face. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 113. ~ |
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| I don’t see why we can’t get along just as well with a polygamist who doesn’t polyg as we do with a lot of monogamists who don’t monog! |
| ~ Attributed to Senator BOIES PENROSE.—Francis T. Plimpton, speech, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June 1958, p. 142. These words were supposedly said in the Senate where a protest had arisen against seating Reed Smoot, the first Mormon senator, in 1903. Not verified in newspapers or accounts of that time. Also attributed, with variation in the wording, to President Theodore Roosevelt, while he was campaigning in 1902.—Bennett Cerf, The Laugh’s on Me, p. 350 (1959). ~ |
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| Where on this earth will death not touch us? No place on earth - no place at all. Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the rocky clefts of mountains. |
| ~Evil ~ |
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| Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man." |
| ~ Plutarch, Of Bashfulness. ~ |
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| I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and by tourists into town. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, June 1, 1909. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 108, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft felt that he must answer many requests for personal appearances. ~ |
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| A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. |
| ~O. A. Battista ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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