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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Topic: Doubt
Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.
Topic: Mind
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Topic: Freedom
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him.
Topic: Prudence
Author: Horace
There's nobody "out there." It's all in here.
Author: Mal Pancoast
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.
Topic: Soul
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Topic: Swine
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
Author: Graham Day
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Topic: Travel
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Nancy Astor
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
Topic: Advice
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
Topic: Gold
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Topic: Grammar
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
Topic: Fancy
I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
Topic: Names