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Baseball is a game of inches.
Topic: Baseball
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Topic: Chaos
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Author: Les Brown
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.
Author: C G Jung
Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.
Topic: World
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Topic: Words
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Topic: Marriage
In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.
Topic: Negativity
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Topic: Knowledge
Author: Buddha
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is She you seek!
Topic: Fidelity
He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls: He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Topic: Eagles
The homegrown tomato is best .
Topic: Marriage
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Author: Colin Wilson
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
Topic: Society
Two things are sure in life: There is a God, and you are not him.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
Topic: Freedom
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.
And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Topic: Charity
Author: Bible