The Great Sayings by the Famous and not so Famous.

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
-Booker T. Washington
 
“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline
 
“Truth is not determined by a majority vote.”
― Pope Benedict XVI

“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
― Mark Twain
 
“I have an idea about voting; how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?”
― Jesse Ventura

“Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.”
― Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
 
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
― Walt Whitman

“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
 
If any thing goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
~Paul Bear Bryant

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
-Vince Lombardi
 
“‎There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.”
― Karl Marx (composer)

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch
 
“Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
― William Penn

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
 

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