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Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.
Topic: Truth
Author: Doc Childre
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets [the] "Old Testament"? Do they not set forth the covenant of grace? The doctrine of justification by faith -- does not Paul in his Epistle to the Romans prove it from Genesis and from the Psalms? Where is the doctrine of substitution and the vicarious sufferings of the messiah set forth more clearly than in Leviticus and in the 53rd of Isaiah? The term "Old Testament" leads people to fancy it is an antiquated book; whereas, in many respects, it is newer than the New Testament, referring more fully to the age of glory and blessedness on the earth which is still before us.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Adolph Saphir
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
Topic: Fishermen
Author: Izaak Walton
I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
Topic: Advice
Author: Richard Deupree
The less we know the more we suspect.
Topic: Suspicion
Author: Josh Billings
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Topic: Letters
Author: Lord Byron
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Georges Rouault
The more reason, the less government.
Topic: Reason
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.'
Topic: Movies
Author: Mae West
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
Topic: Advice
Author: F Albrecht
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Topic: Reputation
Author: Alexandre Talleyrand
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Topic: Education
Author: Ariel And Will Durant
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Topic: Music
Author: Michel De Montaigne
Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Bessie Delaney
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Topic: Peace
Author: Martin Luther King Jr
The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
Topic: Stars
Author: William Cullen Bryant
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Julian Simon
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Topic: Conformity
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche