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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
Topic: Death
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Topic: Obedience
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Topic: Society
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem .
Topic: Suffering
Author: Unknown
The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
Topic: Alchemy
If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
A good way to change somebody's attitude is to change your own.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Topic: Politics
Author: Will Rogers
And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!
Topic: Feet
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Topic: Deeds
The awakening has begun!.
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Topic: Future
Author: Herb Brody
I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God.
Topic: Obscurity
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Author: Jim Bakker
"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Topic: Ants
Author: Bible
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Topic: Wonders