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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Topic: Teaching
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Topic: Last Words
Author: Karl Marx
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. -Deepak Chopra.
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.
Topic: Paradise
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Topic: Prayer
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
Topic: Existence
Author: George Allen
To cool a hot attitude, apply nice. To melt a cold attitude, address warmly.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Topic: Ideas
Author: Jean Genet
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.
Topic: Truth
Author: H L Mencken
The only cure for grief is action.
Topic: Heartbreak
Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
Topic: Vanity
A rookie cop was asked the following question on an examination: "How would you go about dispersing a crowd?" He answered: "Take up an offering. That does it every time.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
Topic: Unity
Author: Bible
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Topic: Genius
Author: John Dryden
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
God himself favors the brave.
Topic: Bravery
Author: Ovid
The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.
Topic: Sports
Years and sins are always more than owned.