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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Author: Lee Iococca
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Often, the only way to comfort the suffering is to understand that you can't understand and just be there.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
Author: Hui Hai
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. - Frances R. Havergal,
Topic: Doubt
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Author: Amanda Cross
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
If God is your co-pilot, switch seats with Him!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Topic: Lying
Author: Cicero
For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Topic: Insanity
Author: John Dryden
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Topic: Religion
Author: Dalai Lama
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Topic: Duty
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
Topic: Duty
Author: Lord Milner
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2
Topic: Dreams
Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. Will duty? Here is a person never the like. Will fear? Here is wrath never the like. Will remorse? Here are sins never the like. Will kindness? Here is love never the like. Will bounty? Here are benefits never the like. Will all these? Here they be all, all in the highest degree.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.