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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
Topic: Morality
Author: H L Mencken
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Topic: Communism
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Topic: Advice
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Topic: Age
Author: Pope Paul VI
My aim is that when my hands will work no longer, that the works of my hands will still continue to keep on working.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
For the child of God, death is when the earth recedes and heaven opens up.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Topic: Television
Author: Ann Landers
Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
Topic: Inaction
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Topic: Control
Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work.
Topic: Cliches
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Topic: Society
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
I hate work. That's why I got married.
Author: Peg Bundy
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Topic: Obstinacy
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?
Topic: Life
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
Topic: Reform
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.