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Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
Topic: Business
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Topic: Government
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.
Topic: Criticism
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Topic: Contentment
Author: Johann Von Goethe
I once saw this sign on a diner wall: "I have an agreement with the bank: they don't fry hamburgers, and I don't cash checks.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
Topic: Zone
Author: Raquel Welch
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Topic: Help
Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
Topic: Promises
Author: Mark Caine
To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture. -Suzuki Roshi.
Topic: Business
Author: Suzuki Roshi
Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Blaise Pascal
Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
Topic: Unkindness
Author: William Shakespeare
People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: H L Mencken
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Topic: Love
Author: Bible
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days.
Topic: Prosperity
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
This last section of Psalm 22 reminds us of Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." The "joy" that was set before Jesus was, we feel, knowing of the riches which would come to his brethren out of his death. In short, we are his joy, set before him when on the cross. As we have seen, only as the circle of the love of Jesus becomes world wide and as big as history will it be complete.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John R Cogdell
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Topic: Sanity
Author: Richard Bachman
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Topic: Christianity
Author: William R Inge
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Ferdinand Edralin Marcos