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Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
Topic: Knowledge
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
Topic: Happiness
Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.
Author: John Keble
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Topic: Golf
Author: Bobby Jones
First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest; That man's the best Cosmopolite Who knows his native country best.
Topic: Toasts
Superman don't need no seat belt.
Topic: Boxing
Author: Muhammad Ali
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
Topic: Music
Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
Topic: Evil
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
All our geese are swans.
Topic: Swans
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Author: Rollo May
How we apples swim.
Topic: Apples
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Topic: Kindness
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Topic: Gentleman
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
Topic: Success
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Topic: Age
Author: Ira Gershwin
Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Topic: Sarcasm