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In reply to the discussion: Please share a favorite quote, saying, proverb... [View all]MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)8. Heard this once on an OLD TV show
starring Ben Gazzara - "Run For Your Life"............. (really rather apt for these days!)
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
........William Lloyd Garrison
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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
chia
May 2020
#3
'This time like any other, is a good time, if we know what to do with it' - R.W. Emerson
empedocles
May 2020
#5
I'll throw in another Will Rogers quote I've always liked -- and believed.
Different Drummer
May 2020
#33
The man quoted is somewhat questionable in his politics but it is still pertinent
marked50
May 2020
#29