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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Topic: Longevity
Author: Martin Luther King Jr
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Topic: Leaders
Author: Jesse Jackson
Better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot ( reference to being better than something potentially worse).
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Topic: Discretion
Author: Bible
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Topic: Competition
Author: Mario Puzo
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Topic: Genius
Author: E F Schumacher
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Topic: Horses
Author: William Shakespeare
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Topic: Study
Author: William Cowper
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
Topic: Heroes
Author: A M Bigot
You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really matters.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Tiffany Garland
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
Topic: Athletes
Author: Billie Jean King
Assumptions based on faith are apparently an ever-present component in any system of belief -- whether these assumptions include the existence of a personal God, or whether they begin with non-rational directionally-emergent forces governed by statistical probabilities. Our argument does not claim that evidences are so clear that faith is not needed. We do intend to imply, however, that the choice of a set of assumptions is a moral choice. Adherence to an epistemology is not something which merely "happens to" a person, but instead it reflects a component of his moral development. In some sense he is, in my judgment, morally responsible for adopting an epistemology even though it can be neither proved nor disproved to the satisfaction of those who oppose it.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Kenneth L Pike
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Topic: Uniqueness
Author: Douglas Adams
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
Topic: Pain
Author: Bayard Taylor
Beware of the man of one book.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
Topic: Books
Author: Richard Aungervyle
Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
Topic: Christianity
Author: T S Eliot
Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Charles Givens
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Topic: Manners
Author: Benjamin Disraeli