Quotable Quotes; Please Add Yours ... (page 7)

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Between them [the Germans] and me there is now a bloody
iron curtain which has descended forever!

ELIZABETH - Queen of Belgium (1876-1965)

Address, 1914; first use of the expression "iron curtain."

Bumble Bee

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

BB

nvrgnbk

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism
ever conceived.

-- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Cato (1713)

Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
English essayist, poet

Dagney

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
Abraham Maslow 1908-1970, Psychologist

Clam

A woman can make an average man great, and a great man average.

Mrs. Witness

Skeeter...it's Janis Joplin, not Janet! Sorry to correct, but she's my favorite and I can't let it slide.

Now, the quote:

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell

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Dear Quotable Friends,

I appreciate your fine additions to QUOTABLE QUOTES.

Here I thought I was both a fool and a fanatic, yet Mr. Russell [not Chuck] has called those of my ilk "wise." Maybe having doubts is all right after all ...

With gratitude,

CoCo

Bumble Bee

"Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong."

David Fasold, 1939-1998

"By examining this record [the earlier books of the Bible], we are enabled to understand
the issues involved and get an overall view of God's purposes. How satisfying this is!
Further, it should rouse us to action, so that we may share in the marvelous future that
awaits mankind."

REVELATION - ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!, pp. 9, 10.

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