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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Topic: Movies
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
Topic: Leadership
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ! My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses!
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
Author: Edmund Burke
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Topic: Lies
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
Topic: Advice
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
Topic: Possession
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Topic: Blood
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
Topic: Blindness
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Topic: Gossip
Author: Will Rogers
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Topic: Ability
Author: Homer
Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
Topic: Pain
Author: Bret Harte
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
The Man and His Two Sweethearts A middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Author: Aesop
If you want to be well liked never lie about yourself, and be careful when telling the truth about others.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Topic: Peace
Author: A J Muste