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That which is acquired without difficulty is dispersed with equal facility.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Topic: Anger
Author: Robert Burns
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Topic: Dress
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Topic: Leadership
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Author: John Berger
He that is down need fear no fall.
Topic: Misery
Author: John Bunyan
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
Topic: Advice
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Topic: Teamwork
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, "We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.".
Topic: Existence
He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.
Topic: Jesting
When a person wants to believe something, it doesn't take much to convince them.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
Topic: Disease
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Topic: Russia
Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship --or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.
Author: C S Lewis
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Topic: Haste
How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Topic: Guilt
What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials.
Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.
Topic: Work
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Topic: Society
Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.
Author: Thomas Wolfe