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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Topic: Experience
Author: Helen Keller
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Scott Alexander
Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die.
Topic: Swans
Author: Lord Byron
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.".
Topic: Capitalism
Author: Phelps Adams
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
Topic: Fanaticism
Author: Unknwon
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Topic: Visions
Author: Robert Burns
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Topic: Selfishness
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Topic: Choices
Author: Anonymous
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Topic: Beginnings
Author: George Bernard Shaw
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Topic: Romance
Author: Jane Austen
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but Lady Greensleeves?
Topic: Love
Author: Unattributed Author
I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Topic: Individuality
Author: Ethel Barrett
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Topic: Photography
Author: Tony Benn
Writing is thinking on paper.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: William Zinsser
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
Topic: Errors
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Topic: Enemies
Author: Edward George Earle
Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709 Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.
Topic: Christianity
Author: William Barclay