Quotes for February 2914 quotes · 14 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 29: the anniversary does not move.

• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 28 reads

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• Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 126 reads

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• He that dies pays all his debts.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 47 reads

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• I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 147 reads

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• If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 188 reads

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• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 157 reads

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• It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived -forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never beco

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  5.0 · 6 votes · 195 reads

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• My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 189 reads

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• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.1 · 46 votes · 11 reads

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• Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

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  Modest Mussorgsky

  MusicianRussian1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 2 reads

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 111 reads

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• Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 10 votes · 134 reads

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• Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 140 reads

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