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Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
Topic: Serenity
Author: Johnny Miller
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Topic: Superstition
Author: Joseph Lewis
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Topic: Martyrs
Author: Chester Himes
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.
Topic: Freedom
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: J Danforth Quayle
When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to resist when temptation seems great. But when he looks into the laws of God, and hears the words of Christ, his natural sense of right and wrong is restored to him, and he becomes elevated, purified, and sanctified.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Benjamin Jowett
This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet.
Topic: Dancing
Author: Anonymous
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.
Topic: Truth
Author: Niels Bohr
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Michael Korda
It is better to be faithful than famous.
Topic: Faithfulness
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Topic: Language
Author: E M Forster
Don't worry! It's not loaded. •Terry Kath, rockmusician, played russian roulette Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!
Topic: Last Words
Author: Terry Kath
A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Topic: Conformity
Author: Albert Einstein
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Topic: Forgetfulness
Author: Bible
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Charlie Brown
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Daniel Day Lewis
Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Lesslie Newbigin