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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Topic: Business
I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.
Topic: Prosperity
You can't get to the top by sitting on your bottom.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Topic: Peace
A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.
If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".
It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
Topic: Liberality
The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Ad
Don't be irreplaceable -- if you can't be replaced, you won't be promoted.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Topic: Murder
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Topic: Society
Author: Henry Kaiser
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Topic: Laughter
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Topic: Knowledge
You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
Topic: Caution
The king reigns but does not govern.
Topic: Royalty
The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
Topic: Contrast
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Topic: Argument
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It will perhaps be said that in our present state of schism this assertion of [spiritual] principle [of oneness] can give us no definite guidance for action, can provide us with no clear programme, and must remain unfruitful. Surely that is not wholly true. It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. If men believe in the existence of this unity, they may begin to desire it, and desiring it to seek for it, and seeking it to find it. If, when they find it, they refuse to deny it, in due time, by ways now unsearchable, they will surely return to external communion.
Author: Roland Allen