Miss Poutine's Favorite Quotes Tome 1

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As long as I can remember I have always been fascinated by quotes.
 

I have hundreds of quotes neatly listed in my Notepad. It's difficult to choose only a few but I'll try here to put some of my favorites.

 Hope you will enjoy them as much as I do and add them to your collection.

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
-Albert Camus-

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What A Wonderful World 

Before you start reading all my quotes, I thought I would put on some music for the background.

Enjoy

Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World my first vid ever! comment! dedecated to all those who inspired me

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Quotes On Patriotism 

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

-Malcolm X-

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QUOTES By Eleanor Roosevelt 

ROSE
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to
read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-

WOMEN
Women are like teabags.
We don`t know our true strength until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt-

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Quotes On Happiness 

Happiness Is Free, So Why Are People Spending So Much Money Trying To Get Happy?

The Constitution only guarantees the American people
the right to pursue happiness.
You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin-

Real happiness is cheap enough;
yet, how dearly we pay for its counterfeit!
- Hosea Ballou-

If you want to live a happy life,
tie it to a goal-not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein-

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others
bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than
that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Charles Caleb Colton-

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Quotes On Reading 

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
~ Austin Phelps ~

"You may have tangible wealth untold.
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold./
Richer than I you can never be - I had a mother who read to me."
- Strickland Gillilan-

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables-

Quotes On PEACE 

"I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days
government had better
get out of their way and let them have it."
-President Eisenhower-

"We make war that we may live in peace."
=Aristotle-
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"The art of preserving peace is greater than
that of waging war, and much more demanding."
-Lyndon B. Johnson-

"Bullets cannot be recalled.
They cannot be uninvented.
But they can be taken out of the gun."
- Martin Amis-

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
- Richard M. Nixon
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"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"
- Georg Büchner-

"I ... believe that in every country
the people themselves are more peaceably
and liberally inclined than their governments."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt-

Quotes By Clara Barton 

Clara Barton is best known for founding the American Red Cross and for her bravery in administering medical care to men on the front lines during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing,
but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
-Clara Barton-

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done .... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
--Clara Barton-

Quotes On War 

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
-Jean-Paul Sartre-

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,
it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
-David Friedman-

My generation has failed miserably.
We've failed because of lack of courage and vision.
It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war."
-Fiorello H. LaGuardia-

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Give Peace A Chance 

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QUOTES ON LYING 

A good memory is needed after one has lied.
-Pierre Corneille -

I'm not upset that you lied to me,
I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask,
'Where have I gone wrong?'
Then a voice says to me,
'This is going to take more than one night.'"
- Charles M. Schulz -

Quotes On Education 

EDUCATION

"I feel that school buildings throughout the nation which stand idle after school hours are a waste of available space and the taxpayer's money
when constructive programs could be offered through their intelligent utilization."
-Father Flanagan-

"When you educate a boy,
you educate an individual,
but when you educate a girl,
you educate a community."
-African proverb-

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education,
without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
- James A. Garfield-

"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future;
we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."
- Abraham Lincoln -

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
-Abraham Lincoln -

Quotes On Writing 

Write while the heat is in you.
The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron
which has cooled to burn a hole with.
He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
-Henry David Thoreau-

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald-

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
-Mark Twain-

Quotes On Politics 

"Crime does not pay ... as well as politics."
-Alfred E. Newman-

"I once said cynically of a politician,
"he'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it."
-Oscar Levant-

"The reason there are so few female politicians is
that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."
-Maureen Murphy -

"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best."
-Will Rogers-

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
-Henry Cate VII-

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Quotes On Children 

CHILDREN

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,
it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
-David Friedman -

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on their shoulders."
- Abigail Van Buren-

CHILDREN
"If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children."
= Mahatma Ghandi-

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