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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Topic: Men
It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish, truth is so; That, wheresoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall.
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.
Author: Alan Alda
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Topic: Advice
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Topic: Action
The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.
Author: James Whale
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
Topic: Violence
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Topic: Regret
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.".
Topic: Sports
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.
He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen.
Topic: Obscurity
Author: Tacitus
Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.
Author: C H Fowler
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
Nothing could have saved the infant Church from melting away into one of those vague and ineffective schools of philosophic ethics except the stern and strict rule that is laid down here [Rev. 2:15, 16] by St. John. An easy-going Christianity could never have survived; only the most convinced, resolute, almost bigoted adherence to the most uncompromising interepretation of its own principles could have given the Christians the courage and self-reliance that were needed. For them to hesitate or to doubt was to be lost.
Author: W M Ramsay
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Topic: Advice
Author: Carl Jung
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Topic: Truth
However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as "the most anti-social and evil of all passions.
Author: F A Hayek
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Topic: Vice