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Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Topic: Vices
Author: Seneca
O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
Topic: Courage
Author: Homer
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Topic: Dignity
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Topic: Obedience
Author: Aristotle
What do you mean overdrawn, I still have checks.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Steve Martin
Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar [in Dublin] and St. Paul's [in London], than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelation.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Topic: Death
People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?
Topic: Intentions
Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.
Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.
Topic: May
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
Topic: Boating
Author: Lord Byron
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Topic: Beginnings
don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Topic: Envy
Author: Herodotus