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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Topic: Advice
Author: Harlan Ellison
Teaching Children to Love -Doc Childre.
Topic: Love
Author: Doc Childre
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Topic: Sports
Author: Mrs Jamieson
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Mack R Douglas
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
Topic: Society
Author: Arthur Koestler
Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Coventry Patmore
Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Topic: Patriotism
Author: William Shakespeare
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Albert Einstein
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Topic: Revolution
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
Topic: Wishes
Author: Edward Young
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Topic: Strength
Author: Wendell L Willkie
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Frederika Bremer
The king reigns but does not govern.
Topic: Royalty
Author: Louis Adolphe Thiers
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
Topic: Business
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Hegel
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Topic: Cunning
Author: Francois Rochefoucauld
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
Topic: Visions
Author: John Milton