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People never say, "It's only a game", when they're winning.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Topic: Vices
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Topic: Society
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran.
Topic: Advice
Author: Ana Lee
Italy is only a geographical expression.
Topic: Italy
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
Topic: Sports
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
Topic: Preaching
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
Topic: Gossip
Author: Unknown
The worst men often give the best advice.
Topic: Advice
Fear is excitement without breath.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Topic: Destiny
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.
Author: J B Phillips
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Topic: Repentance
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Topic: Absence
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Topic: Cowards
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Topic: Insanity
Author: Aristotle