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Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps, Mortals are all asleep below, None in the village hears him go; E'en chanticleer keeps very still, For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.
Topic: Sabbath
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Topic: War
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.
Topic: Quest
Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.
Topic: Earth
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Topic: Wrong
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Topic: Doubt
Author: Karl Kraus
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.
Author: Fo Yan
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Topic: Power
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
Topic: May
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
Topic: Wickedness
Author: Cicero
Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.
Topic: Sports
Words are loaded pistols.
Topic: Language
Lawyer.
Topic: Cliches
Author: N
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Topic: Equality
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Topic: Advice
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
Topic: God
Author: Mark Twain
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Topic: Movies
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Topic: Opponents
Author: Sadaharu Oh
Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames, And before her bows the wavelets dark Break into a thousand gems.
Topic: Boating
Author: Thomas Noel
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Topic: Eyes