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Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.
Topic: Prejudice
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Topic: Ignorance
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
Topic: Business
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Topic: Tyranny
Author: Aesop
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Author: Eileen Caddy
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
Topic: Finance
Author: Mae West
What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.
Topic: Reading
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Topic: Cleverness
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
Topic: Home
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Topic: History
The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.
Topic: Soldiers
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not.
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Topic: Living
Author: Unknown
And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.
Topic: October
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.
Topic: Literature
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Topic: Enemy
Author: Oscar Wilde