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Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
Topic: Education
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
Topic: Choice
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.
Topic: Nature
Author: John Muir
Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.
Topic: Cities
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Topic: Fear
Author: Edmund Burke
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
Topic: Inflation
A seminar on time travel will be held in two weeks ago.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.]
Topic: Faults
Author: Cicero
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Topic: Life
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Topic: Justice
Author: Edmund Burke
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
Topic: Gold
Author: Ovid
Here comes Mutt and Jeff.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Topic: Efficiency
Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
A storm in a cream bowl. - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,
Topic: Storms
Author: James Butler
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
Author: Goethe
Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.