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General Category => In General => Topic started by: Sojourner on April 05, 2022, 04:13:39 PM
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We had a "Great Quotes" thread on the old Bibleforums site that many people enjoyed and contributed to. Over time, it grew into quite an impressive collection. I thought I'd start a revived version of it, and invite everyone to add quotes they like. It can be inspiring, humorous, or just a pearl of wisdom that resonates with most people. For the sake of accuracy, try to verify the authorship when attributing it to an individual. Here are a few to get things started:
"First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals." -John Avalon
"May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid." - George Washington.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
-Thomas Jefferson
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
(Probably Voltaire)
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." -Albert Einstein
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." -Will Rogers
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Great idea!
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down. – Author unknown
God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from himself because there is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis
The enemy wants to define you by your scars. Jesus wants to define you by His. – Louie Giglio
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The patriot's prayer... author unknown...
Lord, make me fast and accurate.
Let my aim be true and my hand faster
than those who wish to harm me and mine.
Let not my last thought be “If only I had my gun”.
and Lord, if today is truly the day you are to call me home,
Let me die in a pile of brass.
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
~~ Charles Dickens, in David Copperfield
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"How unreasonable people are! They never use the freedoms they have but demand those they do not have; they have freedom of thought—they demand freedom of speech"
"Let others complain that the times are evil. I complain that they are wretched, for they are without passion. People's thoughts are as thin and fragile as lace, and they themselves as pitiable as lace-making girls. The thoughts of their hearts are too wretched to be sinful. It is perhaps possible to regard it as sin for a worm to nourish such thoughts, but not for a human being, who is created in the image of God"
"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."
"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."
"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke."
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“It makes no difference what men think of war... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be.”
― Cormac McCarthy
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The Talmud teaches man never to judge his friend until he has been in his place. But, for the world, the Jews are not friends. They have never been. Because they had no friends they are dead. So, learn to be silent.
Elie Weisel
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
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Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God too who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason only do we have to suffer now.
Anne Frank
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“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.”
Plutarch
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“Out of every hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
Heraclitus
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I have only one eye.
Do you wish me to watch the speedometer or the road?
^^ Moshe Dayan
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Winston Churchill
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"They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”
These words were uttered by General John Sedgwick just moments before a Confederate bullet hit him in the left eye, killing him instantly.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something in your life.
Winston Churchill
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For three years I keep addressing you, Jews of Poland, the Crown of World Jewry. I keep warning you time and again that the catastrophe is approaching. My hair has turned white and I grew old during all those years, because my heart is bleeding for you, dear brethren and sisters, for not seeing that the volcano is about to erupt and spit the fire of destruction. I foresee a terrible vision; there is no much time left to save your life. I know: you are too preoccupied and busy with your daily concerns to see it.
Listen to my words on the very last moment: For heaven’s sake! Save your lives, every one of you, as long as there is time – and time is short!
And another thing I would like to tell you on this day, the Ninth of (the Hebrew month of) Av: Those who will run away from this catastrophe will have the privilege to live and see this festive moment of great Jewish Joy – the rebirth and revival of a Jewish State. I do not know if I will live to see it, but my son will! I believe in this as strongly as I believe that tomorrow the sun will rise.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Warsaw, 1938
He passed away on August 3, 1940.
His son Eri served in the first Israeli Knesset.
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"Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain." -Psalms 127:1
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Ronald Reagan
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan.
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'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.' -Ronald Reagan
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
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"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan
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"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." --Ronald Reagan
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -Albert Einstein
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. - Louis Pasteur
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'You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.'
Leon Trotsky
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'You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.'
Leon Trotsky
"You may not believe in the devil, but he believes in you."
Constantine
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"Politics is the last refuge of the scoundrel." --Boies Penrose
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book."- Ronald Reagan
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Women will never have true equality with men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they're sexy. -Unknown
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein
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“No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience...our rulers can have no authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted.”-Thomas Jefferson
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"When it's my time to go, I want to go out peacefully in my sleep, like my grandpa. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car." -Unknown
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"Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." -Howard Ruff
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"A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something."
-Plato
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"Noah's ark was built by an amateur following God's instructions. The Titanic was a technological marvel whose designers declared even God could not sink." -Unknown
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"I had polio at age 4. Old folks are rookies."
Anonymous as of now.
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"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
-P.J. O'Rourke
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"Most fail not by aiming too high and missing the mark, but by aiming too low and hitting it." -Unknown
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"Always say what you mean. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." -Dr Suess
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"You can't take it with you. I've never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer." -unknown
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -Gerald Ford
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If you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed. If you do read it you're misinformed. - Denzel Washington
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"Never miss a good chance to shut up." -Will Rogers
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"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
-Abraham Lincoln
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"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence." -Thomas Jefferson
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"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence." -Thomas Jefferson
Yeah but this was 250 years ago. Whatever is going on now is of completely different consequence.
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"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence." -Thomas Jefferson
Yeah but this was 250 years ago. Whatever is going on now is of completely different consequence.
Yeah, different era and different dynamics, for sure.
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"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut." -Will Rogers
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"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger." -Billy Connolly
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be." -George Carlin
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"God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called." -Unknown
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"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." -Unknown
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." -Raymond Hull
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"Few things suck like that moment in a heated argument when you realize you're wrong." --Unknown
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"Tact is the ability to make a point without making an enemy." - Unknown
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"Ka-boom.... [gunshot from backyard]...
"Kids, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is, no Easter eggs or candy this year.
Good news is, rabbit for lunch..."
~~ RabbiKnife's dad, one Easter Sunday morning when the Knife was a mere lad of 12...
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Years ago I released a special version of my chess program ProDeo, the Gospel version.
http://rebel13.nl/prodeo/prodeo25.html
Yes, this special version after each move throws a (Christian safe) random (light-heartedly) quote at you. Categories are: Love, Wisdom, Christian, Humor, Philosophical, Gospel and Science with the intent to make you think. Examples below.
Here are the quotes I collected in 2 parts.
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Category: Christian
Only those who are already born support abortion.
-- MAD Magazine 1969
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[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
-- Heywood Broun
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Category: Christian
You must make your choice. Either this man was and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.
He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
-- C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity 1952
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Category: Humor
The evolution believing atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
-- Kent Hovind
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Category: Philosophical
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
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Category: Love
Where there is love there is no question.
-- Albert Einstein
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Category: Philosophical
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ...
Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Category: Philosophical
What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires - desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it.
If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
-- Bertrand Russell, philosopher
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Category: Humor
One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God.
So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The Darwinian walked up to God and said, God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost.
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, Very well, how about this? Let's say we have a man-making contest. To which the Darwinian happily agreed. God added, Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.
The Darwinian said, Sure, no problem and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.
God looked at him and said, No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!!!!
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Category: Humor
I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven's door, Not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights or its decor.
But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp The thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics and the trash.
There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money twice. Next to him was my old neighbor who never said anything nice.
Herb, who I always thought was rotting away in hell, was sitting pretty on cloud nine, looking incredibly well.
I nudged Jesus, What's the deal? I would love to hear your take. How'd all these sinners get up here? God must've made a mistake. And why's everyone so quiet, so somber give me a clue.
Child,' He said, 'they're all in shock. They never thought they'd be seeing you!
[END]
[BEGIN]
Category: Christian
Don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you.
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Category: Christian
If the devil reminds you on your past, remind him on his future.
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Category: Christian
Rather a prayer without and end than an ending without prayer.
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Category: Science
Big Bang... so first there was nothing and then the nothingness exploded.
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Category: Christian
Summum of self esteem: looking at yourself through God's eyes.
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Category: Christian
Always testify, if necessary with words.
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Category: Christian
God didn't promise us a calm journey but a safe arrival.
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Category: Christian
Temptation is only a problem when you allow the inner discussion again.
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Category: Love
Love your neighbour because that's me.
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[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel
God believes in atheists.
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Category: Humor
If money is the root of all evil, then why do they ask for it in church?
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Category: Humor
Atheist: What's this fly doing in my soup?
Waiter: Praying.
Atheist: Very funny. I can't eat this. Take it back.
Waiter: You see? The fly's prayers were answered.
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[BEGIN]
Category: Humor
A poster reads: God is dead.
-- Nietzsche
The graffiti underneath reads: Nietzsche is dead.
-- God
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[BEGIN]
Category: Humor
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.....
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
-- Jesus Christ
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Category: Science
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favourable properties of physics on which life depends are in every respect deliberate....
It is therefore almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect ... higher intelligences ...even to the limit of God... such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.
-- Sir Fred Hoyle, British mathematician, astronomer and cosmologist
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Category: Science
The notion that ... the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
-- Sir Fred Hoyle, British mathematician, astronomer and cosmologist
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
-- Plato
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[BEGIN]
Category: Humor
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde
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[BEGIN]
Category: Humor
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper
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[BEGIN]
Category: Love
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
-- Ali MacGraw to Ryan O'Neal in Love story (1970)
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
-- Socrates
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
He who recognizes no humanity in others, loses it in himself.
-- Author unknown
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[BEGIN]
Category: Philosophical
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
-- Albert Einstein
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Wisdom
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Christian
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
-- John Piper
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Category: Wisdom
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
-- Euripides
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[BEGIN]
Category: Love
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Category: Love
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
-- Bryant H. McGill
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Category: Love
Love is serving the other.
-- Me
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Category: Love
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness.
If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
-- Stevie Wonder
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Category: Wisdom
Immature love says: I love you because I need you.
Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-- Erich Fromm
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Category: Wisdom
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Category: Wisdom
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same Master.
-- Michelangelo
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Category: Christian
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Christian
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Part 2
[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
-- Jesus Christ
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[BEGIN]
Category: Science | Wisdom
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
-- Isaac Newton
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Category: Wisdom
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Isaac Newton
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Category: Science
The human genome is made up of DNA, which has four different chemical building blocks. These are called bases and abbreviated A, T, C, and G.
In the human genome, about 3 billion bases are arranged along the chromosomes in a particular order for each unique individual.
To get an idea of the size of the human genome present in each of our cells, consider the following analogy:
If the DNA sequence of the human genome were compiled in books, the equivalent of 200 volumes the size of a Manhattan telephone book (at 1000 pages each) would be needed to hold it all.
-- The Human Genome Project
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Category: Science
A cell is far more complicated than any machinery built by man so how could such a complex organism rose from dead material by chance?
World-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Holye said it this way:
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing-747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there?
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Category: Science
I estimate that the chance of life evolving on any given single planet, like the Earth, is one chance in 1x102,000,000,000 [that is one chance out of 1 followed by 2 billion zeroes] (1973, p. 46).
This figure is so large that it would take 6,000 books of 300 pages each just to write the number!
-- Carl Sagan
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Category: Science
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist.
I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them.
I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.
-- Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics)
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Category: Humor
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count and those who can't.
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Category: Wisdom
It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and only five minutes to destroy it.
-- Warren Buffet
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[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel
I miss you.
-- God
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Category: Gospel
I love you.
-- God
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[BEGIN]
Category: Christian
You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
-- Corrie ten Boom
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
Nothing sucks like the moment in a heated argument when you realize you're wrong.
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Category: Wisdom
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never spent a night with a mosquito.
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Category: Christian
The wish often is the father of the doctrine.
-- Me
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Category: Gospel | Christian
Lord, I believe, help me in my unbelief.
-- Bible
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[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
-- Jesus Christ
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[BEGIN]
Category: Gospel
And he [Jesus] opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
-- Jesus Christ
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[BEGIN]
Category: Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
-- Bible
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Category: Gospel
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
-- Bible
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Category: Gospel
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
-- Jesus
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Category: Gospel
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him [Jesus].
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
So he [Jesus] told them this parable:
What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
-- Jesus
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Jesus wept.
-- Bible
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Philip said to him [Jesus], Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.
Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, Show us the Father?
-- Bible
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Category: Gospel
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him.
Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
--Bible
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The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed [Jesus]; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him [Jesus] from the dead.
-- Bible
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But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
-- Bible
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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
-- Bible
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God's Everlasting Love
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn?
Christ Jesus is the one who died-more than that, who was raised-who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-- Bible
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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
-- Bible
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I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
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Category: Science
The fine-tuned universal constants.
There are 43 of such physical constants in the Universe and if you change just one of them too much life would be impossible.
The chance these 43 universal physical constants developed itself (randomly) by chance is astronomic low.
One part in 10^37 is such an incredibly sensitive balance that it is hard to visualize.
The following analogy might help: Cover the entire North American continent in dimes all the way up to the moon, a height of about 239,000 miles (In comparison, the money to pay for the U.S. federal government debt would cover one square mile less than two feet deep with dimes.)
Next, pile dimes from here to the moon on a billion other continents the same size as North America.
Paint one dime red and mix it into the billions of piles of dimes.
Blindfold a friend and ask him to pick out one dime.
The odds that he will pick the red dime are one in 10^37.
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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life;
-- Jesus Christ
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Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
-- Jesus Christ
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For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
-- Jesus Christ
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-- Bible
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And this is the promise that he made to us -- eternal life.
-- Bible
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I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
-- Bible
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
-- Pascal
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[BEGIN]
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
-- Pascal
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Pascal's famous wager.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
-- Pascal
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
-- Pascal
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
-- Pascal
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
-- Pascal
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[BEGIN]
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
-- Pascal
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[BEGIN]
Category: Wisdom
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
-- Pascal
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[BEGIN]
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Wow! I guess that pretty much wraps up this thread. :o
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I say keep em coming!
There is no more devastating blow against evil then what a human being chooses God in the face of suffering, disappointment, unbelief, chronic pain, frustration, abandonment...before the circumstances change, to get up and proclaim that God is good is a devastating blow to evil.
-John Eldredge
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"The greatest injustice is using the law to keep justice at bay." -Scott Adams
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"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in." -Will Rogers
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"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." -Booker T Washington
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"There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works." -Will Rogers
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"The best way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket." -Will Rogers
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"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." -Abraham Lincoln
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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." -Charles De Gaulle
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"You cannot fully understand that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have." -Corrie Ten Boom
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -John F. Kennedy
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake." -Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -Unknown
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. -Sun-Tzu
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“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” Robert Anthony
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"Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -Unknown
My dad often used this one.
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"Guests, like fish, begin to stink after three days." -Benjamin Franklin
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"Love is blind. Friendship pretends not to notice." -Will Rogers
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“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do” -Will Rogers
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." -Greek proverb
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"Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set." - unknown
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"Don't count the days, make the days count." --Muhammad Ali
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"The atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Kent Hovind
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"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance." -Kahil Gibran
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"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency." -Eugene McCarthy
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan
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"Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die." -Debbie Ford
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"Don't expect your ship to come in one day if you haven't sent one out." -Unknown
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"Be the change you want to see in the world." -Ghandi
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"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -Ronald Reagan
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." -Winston Churchill
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Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated people. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. -Walter Lippman
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ. -Ghandi
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"It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility."
-Albert Einstein
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“It’s not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.” --Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." -unknown
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"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there."
-Will Rogers
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried."
-Winston Churchill
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"God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we talk."
-Unknown
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"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper
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"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it." -unknown
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"If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson." -unknown
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"Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness." -unknown
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"A man in love with himself with have no rivals" -Benjamin Franklin
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A mountain is just a mole hill from Heaven's point of view. -unknown
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"A holding company is an accomplice that holds the goods while the policeman searches you." -Will Rogers
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"Keep all your words soft and sweet, you never know which you'll have to eat." -Unknown
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"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." -Polish Proverb
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"It's better to give others a piece of your heart than a piece of your mind." - unknown
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"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - unknown
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"...We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise." -Golda Meir
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"He who fails to recognize the humanity in others loses his own." -unknown
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"Nobody talks as incessantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."
-- Heywood Broun
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"Wisdom is knowing how little we know" - Socrates
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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." -Ronald Reagan
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. -Ronald Reagan
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill
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"A good reputation can take years to build, but only a moment to destroy." -Unknown
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"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it." -Albert Einstein
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston Churchill
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." -Winston Churchill
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"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change." -Robert Anthony
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."
-Ronald Reagan
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"The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it." -Robert Anthony
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
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"I'm determined to stop being a procrastinator. One of these days." -me
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill
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"He who is too big for his breeches will be exposed in the end" -Unknown
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"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." -Lana Turner
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmon
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"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." -Thomas Jefferson
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me". -Fred Allen
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Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
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"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat." -Harold Wilson
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"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth." -Will Rogers
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet leaves on the heel that crushed it." Mark Twain
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace." -George Washington
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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." -unknown
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" Common sense, unfortunately, is not that common."-unknown
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to have a good memory.” ― Mark Twain
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane
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“Don’t walk in front of me, as I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, as I may not lead. Walk beside me, and be my friend” ― Albert Camus
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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
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“Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot
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"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will Rogers
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“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss
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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen
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"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." -Winston Churchill
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"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." -Milton Berle
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"Cats don't have owners, they have staff" -unknown
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"Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects." - Will Rogers
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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." -Albert Einstein
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"There are no gains without pains." -Benjamin Franklin
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"I've figured out why hair turns gray as you grow older: it's your gray matter leaking out" -Sojourner
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"When someone gets into government, any government, it doesn't matter which government, it seems they have their common sense surgically removed."-Cloudwalker
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“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” ― Victor hugo
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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” ― Khaled Hosseini
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis
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“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ― Robert J. Hanlon
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“A 'classic′ is a book which people praise but don't read.” ― Mark Twain
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“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.” ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
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“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein
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"Most who consider themselves a wit are usually half right." -unknown
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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” ― Oscar Wilde
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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” ― Oscar Wilde
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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston Churchill
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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston S. Churchill
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"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." -John Wooden
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"To argue with a man who has renounced reason is like giving medicine to the dead." -Thomas Paine
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"A full stomach loves to preach fasting." -unknown
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -George Bernard Shaw
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"It's a cruel irony of life that the more birthday candles longevity earns us, the less wind we have to blow them out" -Sojourner
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"Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, for the same reason" -unknown
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"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car." -Billy Sunday
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"Always borrow money from a pessimist." He won't expect it back." -Oscar Wilde
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"We look forward to the time when the power of love replaces the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." -William Ewart Gladstone
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"I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not have their motives questioned." -unknown
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"Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -Joshua J. Marine
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"Perfection is unattainable, but if we pursue it, we can achieve excellence." Vince Lombardi
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Henry S. Haskins
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"One of life's mysteries is why kamikaze pilots wore helmets." -Al McGuire
(Another mystery is why those administering lethal injections prep the injection site with alcohol).
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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night." Dave Barry
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound the make as they go by." -Douglas Adams
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"Many of life's failures are experienced by people who failed to see how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison
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"Those who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." -Isaac Asimov
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"By the time a man realizes his father was right, he has a son who thinks his father is wrong." -unknown
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans the flames of a fire." -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"The human brain is an amazing thing. It starts working the moment you're born, and stops working when we stand up to speak in public." George Jessel
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"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism. If you steal from many, it's research." Wilson Mizner
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"Logic will get you from A to to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -Albert Einstein
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is what others think you are." -unknown
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"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time." -Joe Girard
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"What you do speaks so loudly I can't hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing." -Peter F. Drucker
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
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"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." -Helen Keller
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"Better to have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; and lips that cannot speak than a heart that cannot love." -Robert Tizon
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." -Dr Suess
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
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"Most bargains are something you don't need at a price you can't resist." -Franklin Jones
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it." -Franklin Jones
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"Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand." -Anonymous
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age." -Robert Frost
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"When opportunity knocks, some people are in the back yard looking for four-leaf clovers." -Polish Proverb
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"He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave." -William Drummond
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert Heinlein
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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." -Wayne Walter Dyer
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"I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends more on our dispositions than our circumstances."
-Martha Washington
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"Great thoughts speak to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. -Emily P. Bissel
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"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead of you." Bill McGlashen
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"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." -G. K. Chesterton
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We live in a society where pizza gets to your house faster than the police." -unknown
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"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." -Jack Handey
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"You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending." -James R. Sherman
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"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." -P. J. O'Rourke
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"Love me when i least deserve it, because that's when I need it most" -Swedish proverb
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison
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"The shinbone is amazingly accurate at finding furniture in a dark room." -unknown
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"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it to be sure." -unknown
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"I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and think, "Well that's not going to happen." -unknown
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"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -Fred Shero
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when they deserve it." -Mark Twain
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"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the internet, we know that's not true. -Robert Wilensky
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"Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but won't get you anywhere." -Vance Havner
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"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without waiting to get the facts." -E.B. White
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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” ― Dr. Seuss
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"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." -Abigail Van Buren
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"Never in my life have I learned anything from a man who agreed with me." -Dudley Field Malone
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"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." -Abigail Van Buren
There is no such tbing as "quality time" without "quantity time"
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"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. -Alexander the Great
"There is nothing permanent except change." -Heraclitus
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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. -Albert Einstein
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. -Abraham Lincoln
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"The only way to have a good day is to start it with gratitude." - Unknown
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others." - Albert Camus
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“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
--Booker T. Washington
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It is the smaller, the petty things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together. -Booker T. Washington
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Albert Camus — 'Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.'
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Your present circumstances don't determine how far you can go, but merely your starting point. -Unknown
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. -Oscar Wilde
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Many people die at 25, but aren't buried until they are 75. -Benjamin Franklin
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. -Mark Twain
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -William Bruce Cameron
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Malcolm Forbes
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We don't see things as they are, but as we are. -Anais Nin
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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Marthe Troly-Curtin
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I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work. -Thomas Edison
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. -Albert Einstein
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If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ― J.K. Rowling
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If you always tell the truth, you don't have to have a good memory. -Judge Judy
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This is a prayer my father taught me. I don't know where he got it but I doubt it was original with him.
Lord fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff. And nudge me when I've said enough.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. -Soren Kierkegaard
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There are two ways to argue with a woman. Neither one works.--unknown.
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. -Stephen Hunt
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If you never receive criticism you don't do much.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
He said that as an excuse for something he did wrong :)
I use it daily, just kidding.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -unknown
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We are responsible not only for what we do, but for what we fail to do. -Moliere
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“The story so far: in the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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No one can help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -Ronald Reagan
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Governments are like diapers. Both need to be changed regularly and for the same reason.
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No matter how big and bad you are, when a 2 year-old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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To be is to do - Socrates
To do is to be - Sartre
Do be do be do - Sinatra
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"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money".
--Sen. Everett Dirksen