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And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Topic: Grave
Author: Bible
Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!
When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
Topic: Love
Author: John Clarke
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Topic: Worth
I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.
Topic: Martyr
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Topic: Golf
Author: Jack Lemmon
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Topic: Fleas
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Topic: Nothing
Author: George Ade
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Topic: Luck
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
Author: Porterfield
A moment on the lips,an eternity on the hips.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Topic: Government
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
Topic: Wickedness
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X.
Topic: Truth
Author: Malcolm X
We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they can say we have helped, write us grateful letters, even stand steady for a time till the juice we have put into them runs out; but, we may have brought them no hunger for God -- because that hunger is no ache in our own heart -- nor brought them anywhere near to the end of self. ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn September 13, 1999 Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407 Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up in life. These are words by which the slanderers of the nature, of the body, the impeachers of our flesh, are completely overthrown... We do not wish to cast aside the body, but corruption: not the flesh, but death. The body is one thing, corruption another; the body is one thing, death another... What is foreign to us is not the body but corruptibility.
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. -Doc Childre.
Topic: Emotions
Author: Doc Childre
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Topic: Education
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Topic: Genius
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Topic: Guests