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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Topic: Education
Author: Oscar Wilde
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Topic: Falcons
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight To consolate thine ear.
Topic: Rumor
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. - Definitions, 1953.
Author: Alain
Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
Dynamics of Goal Setting, Success Motivation Institute.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Topic: Sports
Author: Greg Lemond
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. -Georgia O'Keeffe.
Topic: Time
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Topic: Work
Author: Terence
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
Topic: Guilt
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Topic: Faith
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Topic: Ideas
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Topic: Fashion
Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
Topic: Rome
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.
Topic: Sports
Author: Gil Atkinson
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.