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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
Topic: Education
Author: Lee Rudolph
We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.
Topic: Negativity
Author: John E Gray
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
Topic: Nations
Author: Jerome K Jerome
Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Polish Proverb
Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking silly doing the same things over and over.
Topic: Mimes
Author: Keith Irwin
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain, again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Topic: Advice
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Topic: Books And Reading
Author: Harold Clurman
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
Topic: Listening
Author: Italian Proverb
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
Topic: Life
Author: Virginia Woolf
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Topic: Ability
Author: John Dryden
Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Henry Newman
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Topic: Study
Author: Francis Bacon
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Topic: Farewells
Author: Robert Byrne
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
Topic: Injury
Author: Thomas Fuller
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
Topic: Repetition
Author: Liu Binyan
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Edwin Percy Whipple
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Topic: Forgiveness
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Topic: Economy
Author: Benjamin Franklin