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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Topic: Attitude
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
Topic: Sun
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
Author: Pilgrims
Attend Church weekly NOT weakly.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
Topic: Fear
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.
Topic: Liberty
One Youngster was explaining to another what "mixed emotions" meant. "It's like watching the school burn down when your new catcher's mitt is in your desk," he said.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Topic: Students
Author: Confucius
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller.
Topic: Inspiring
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Wayne Dyer
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Topic: Religion
Author: Edmund Burke
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life like being blown out as one blows out a light.
Topic: Advice
Author: Evelyn Scott
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Topic: Poetry
On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.
Topic: Admiration
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
Topic: Mothers
Author: Oscar Wilde
Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
Topic: Babies
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense.
Topic: Suffering
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.