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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Topic: Property
Author: Bertrand Russell
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Oscar Wilde
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Topic: Leadership
Author: Charles De Gaulle
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Eric Hoffer
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Topic: Quotes
Author: Winston Churchill
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.
Topic: Parenting
Author: Dawna Markova
Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.
Topic: Time
Author: Deepok Chopra
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.
Topic: World Peace
Author: H G Wells
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Topic: Adaptability
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
Topic: Language
Author: William Shakespeare
Remember, don't put it off... Go ahead and do it... If you get to it... And don't do it... You may never get to it.. To do it... Again.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Tom Hopkins
O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Topic: Prayer
Author: Bible
Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.
Topic: Christianity
Author: A W Tozer