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I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.
Topic: Soccer
Author: Johan Cruijff
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Topic: Existence
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley.
Topic: Exwomen
Author: Julianne Kepley
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Topic: Duty
Author: John D Rockefeller
Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
Topic: Statesmanship
Author: James Russell Lowell
Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
Topic: Genetics
Author: Source Unknown
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Topic: Advice
Author: Oscar Wilde
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Karl Marx
Would I describe a preacher, . . . . I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Topic: Preaching
Author: William Cowper
Success is a ladder that can not be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
Topic: Eternity
Author: Lord Byron
O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of joy, when Fingal, king of shields, was there, and glowed at the deeds of his fathers.
Topic: Singing
Author: Ossian
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Cindy Sherman
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Topic: Sorrow
Author: Jean Ingelow
For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Jello Biafra
Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?
Topic: Revolution
Author: Sebastien Roch Nicolas
Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.
Topic: Parting
Author: John Gay
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take prozac to make it normal.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
Topic: Hatters
Author: William Shakespeare