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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.
Topic: Photography
Author: Edward Steichen
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Max De Pree
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Topic: Opposition
Author: George Eliot
Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Anonymous
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Jackie Collins
Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He has prayed, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God. Praises of the Father, Substance of the Father, The stamp and issue forever, In Love! Word of Love!
Topic: Christianity
Author: Olivier Messiaen
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Topic: Balance
Author: Thomas Merton
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Shirley Temple Black
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours. -Swedish Proverb.
Topic: Love
Author: Swedish Proverb
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly, they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Topic: Advice
Author: Quentin Crisp
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.
Topic: Enemies
Author: Cicero
The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!
Topic: Last Words
Author: Sun Yat Sen
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Topic: Sports
Author: Rogers Hornsby
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller.
Topic: Inspiring
Author: Dr Robert Schuller
It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Topic: Friendship
Author: James F Byrnes