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“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.”

— Maya Angelou

“I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.”

— Barack Obama

“The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.”

— Seth Shostak

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

— Bruce Lee

“So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.”

— Donald Trump

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.

“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

— Edmund Burke

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

— Robert Frost

“The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn't worked. And I think that we've learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.”

— John F. Kennedy

“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

— Bernard Shaw

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

— Thomas Paine

“There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.”

— Bill Gates

“But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”

— Barack Obama

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald