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Forbidden fruit is sweet.
Topic: Forbidden
Author: Proverb
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".
Topic: Blood
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
Topic: Education
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
Topic: Society
Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
Topic: Age
The deepest waters make the least noise.
Topic: Cliches
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Topic: Wit
Screwed up as Hogan's Goat.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
Topic: Jazz
Author: Count Basie
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Topic: History
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
Topic: Housework
The journey is the reward.
Author: Tao Saying
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Topic: Creativity
Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.
Topic: Society
She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
Topic: Pity
Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Mike Murdock
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.".
Topic: Sports
Author: Carl Lewis