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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Topic: Books
Author: Isaac Asimov
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
Topic: Faith
Author: John Dryden
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test Communists are frustrated Capitalists.
Author: Eric Hoffer
, Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.
Author: Doc Childre
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Topic: Moderation
There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Topic: Man
All the fatt's in the fire.
Topic: Fire
Author: John Marston
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Topic: Tomorrow
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
Topic: Hope
is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Topic: Security
Author: Marge Piercy
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. -Woodrow Wilson:.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Topic: Advice
There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
Topic: Obedience
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Topic: Beginnings
Author: Voltaire
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
Topic: Stupidity
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Topic: Boredom
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Topic: Youth
Author: John Dryden