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And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Author: Chris Hubbock
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
Topic: Deep Thoughts
Author: Jack Handy
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
Topic: Deceit
Author: Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Blaise Pascal
Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
Topic: Work
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Topic: Reading
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
Topic: Rivalry
Author: George Ade
A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Mencius
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
Topic: Sports
Author: Marguerite Beecher
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.
Topic: Finance
Author: Will Rogers
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Topic: Mystery
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Topic: Peace
Author: Bible
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Jonathan Swift
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Topic: Negativity
Author: John F Boyes
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Richard Carlson
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Walter Bagehot
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
Topic: Hospitality
Author: Indian Proverb