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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Government, Democracy, Others

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain

Find, America, Wonderful

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama

Change, History, Government

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain

Made, Small, Large

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison

Life, Mistakes, Worst

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain

Enough, Said, Times

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Today

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Fact

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Truth, May

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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi

Work, Heart, Made

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill

Forget, Against, Until

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill

Drunk, Contempt, Brought

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge, Alone, Human

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

Fight, Country, Moment

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

Work, Simple, End

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Love, Wife

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Age, Country, Liberty

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Peace, Time

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn

Home, Sadness, Father

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Dream, Despair

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Reason, Oppression

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Live, Everything, Except

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

History, Freedom, Long

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Heart, Again

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Faith, Great, Men

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Maya Angelou

Technology, Humanity, While

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur

Bad, Rather, Cold

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

Good, Men, Poor

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Nature, Evil

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, God, Maniac

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