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Act honestly, and answer boldly.
Topic: Boldness
Author: Danish Proverb
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Topic: Pessimism
Author: Robert Lowell
Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Mike Gill
O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.
Topic: Cause
Author: William Shakespeare
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Cliff Fadiman
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Topic: Justification
Author: Joseph Conrad
We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Henry Block
EPIPHANY Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.
Topic: Christianity
Author: George Macdonald
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Topic: Hatred
Author: Anton Chekhov
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
Topic: Anger
Author: George Crabbe
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Topic: Doubt
Author: Buddha
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
Topic: Distrust
Author: Samuel Johnson
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Hunter S Thompson
I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Duncan Hines
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Topic: Advice
Author: Marlon Brando
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Topic: Nobility
Author: Francis Bacon
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
Topic: Integrity
Author: Peter Scotese
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Topic: Relationships
Author: Wayne Dyer
Temptation resisted is the true measure of character.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Louis Dega