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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Topic: Peace
Author: Bible
Some succeed because they are destined to. But most succeed because they are determined to.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.
Topic: Courage
Author: Unattributed Author
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Topic: Education
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Topic: Faith
Author: Blaise Pascal
To be rather than to seem.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Aeschylus
Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Topic: Criticism
Author: Franklin Jones
Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
Topic: Gratitude
Author: Joseph W Alsop Jr
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.
Topic: Newspapers
Author: Unknwon
I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint.
Topic: Royalty
Author: Samuel Butler
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Jan Masaryk
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
Topic: Foppery
Author: John Gay
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Edward R Murrow
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.
Topic: Body
Author: George Melton
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
Topic: Toasts
Author: Ben Jonson
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
Topic: Housework
Author: Lady Hasluck
We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise⦠you have just stolen our philosophy.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Jayvantsinnji Gohel
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Frederick P Brooks
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Topic: Gossip
Author: Izaak Walton
Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir?
Topic: Undertakers
Author: Robert Blair