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Going beyond is as bad as falling short.
Topic: Moderation
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Aristotle
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Topic: Argument
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Topic: Argument
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.
Topic: Life
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
Topic: Winter
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Topic: Goodness
Author: Cervantes
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Topic: Day
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Topic: Humanity
Author: Euripides
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Topic: Stress
Author: Hans Selye
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.
Topic: Example
Author: Junius
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Topic: War
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Topic: Change
The difference between a rebel and a patriot is wether who is in power.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Topic: Nothing
Author: Lucretius
Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
Topic: Land