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"But it does move."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Galileo Galilei
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."Source: Poor Richard's Almanack | Author: Benjamin Franklin
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver
"God doesn't play dice with the world."Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man | Speaker: Albert Einstein
"Have a vision. Be demanding."Source: It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership | Author: Colin Powell
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci
"I believe it is peace for our time."Source: Speech outside 10 Downing Street | Speaker: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."Source: 1780 Letter | Author: John Adams
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."Source: Letter to Robert Hooke | Author: Sir Isaac Newton
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."Source: Furman v. Georgia | Author: Thurgood Marshall
"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."Source: Art exhibit at the Moderna Museet | Author: Andy Warhol
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."Source: 1789 Letter | Author: Benjamin Franklin
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."Source: BBC Radio Broadcast | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"It was a dark and stormy night."Source: Paul Clifford | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."Source: 1965 TV Broadcast | Speaker: J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Politics is the art of the possible."Source: St. Petersburgische Zeitung | Author: Prince Otto von Bismarck
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington
"The pen is mightier than the sword."Source: Richelieu | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."Source: Letter to Col. William S. Smith, November 13, 1787 | Author: Thomas Jefferson
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Albert Einstein
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."Source: The San Francisco Chronicle | Author: Henry Ford
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."Source: Pennsylvania Assembly | Author: Benjamin Franklin
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."Source: 1946 Letter | Author: Albert Einstein
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."Source: Unknown | Author: Mahatma Gandhi
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life | Author: Eleanor Roosevelt