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Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

He that won't be counselled can't be helped.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.

Thought is a dangerous thing, it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.