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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Topic: Friendship
Author: C C Colton
Crime is a product of social excess.
Topic: Crime
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Topic: Fault
Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 It seems clear that those people who personally are completely convinced of justification by grace alone, and who heartily grant to people of another color the right to the same justification (as long as they remain in their own churches, schools, ghettos, handyman occupations), give an ugly expression to the Augustinian and Reformation understanding of justification. By their emphasis upon the primacy of individual justification, they deny the immediate social character and impact of the justification of the Jews and Gentiles, and they obstruct or delay the changes in common life which belong to the "new creation".
Author: Markus Barth
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.
Topic: Zombies
The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.
Topic: Swallows
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
Topic: Jokes
Author: Groucho Marx
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Topic: Generosity
Author: Junius
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
Topic: Abuse
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.
Topic: Luxury
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Topic: Hunger
Author: Cervantes
Sing a song of sixpence.
Topic: Songs
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Author: Edith Cavell
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Topic: Time
Author: Bible
The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still a rat.
Author: Jane Wagner
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Topic: Absurdity