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The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
Topic: Wounds
Author: Charles IX
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
Topic: Business
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Topic: Music
Author: Groucho Marx
The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising: There are forty feeding like one!
Topic: Animals
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Topic: Honor
Author: Cicero
A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.
Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Topic: Fate
Author: Paul Dickson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
This is a pretty flimflam.
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.
Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Topic: Epigrams
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Cicero
If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is not actively and objectively "there" in the place of power, irrespective of whether he is acknowledged or not, we should give up hope of our own rising, and of Jesus' public return, and admit that the idea of churches and Christians being sustained by the Spirit-giving energy of a living Lord was never more than a pleasing illusion. And, in that case, we ought frankly to affirm that, though the New Testament is an amazing witness to the religious creativity of the human spirit, its actual message is more wrong than right, more misleading than helpful; and we must reconstruct our gospel accordingly. Only a weak, muddled, or cowardly mind will hesitate to do this.
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Author: Rusty Berkus
Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
Topic: Influence
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Topic: Maturity
Author: Oscar Wilde