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If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
Topic: Scripture
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Topic: Peace
And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below, Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!
Topic: Prayer
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
Author: Bible
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.
Author: Gary Cooper
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Author: William Pitt
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
Topic: Help
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Topic: Literary
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,--what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
Topic: Eating
Author: Lord Lytton
God tries our faith so that we may try His faithfulness.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
It is not something I must do but something I want to do….
Author: James Fixx
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
Topic: Fishermen
Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
Topic: Germany
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
Topic: Spirit
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Topic: Science
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
Topic: Advice
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Topic: Philosophy
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
Author: George Gobel