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Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Tatsuhiko Andoh
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Topic: Adventure
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house.
Topic: Hospitality
Author: Plautus
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: William Gibson
Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Francois De Sales
Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Irish Proverb
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
Topic: Applause
Author: Alexander Pope
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan.
Topic: Service
Author: David Star Jordan
Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.
Topic: Genius
Author: C Holman
In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.
Topic: Argument
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Topic: Promises
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Topic: Learning
Author: Chinese Proverb
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 The great need today among the young is the strengthening of belief in things spiritual, for in spite of the superhuman advances in science, invention, and culture, none of this is attributed to God's gift to man; in fact, the increase of knowledge and the cult of education have but given to youth a self-reliant independence where religion has no place, and beyond admitting that Christ was "the best man that ever lived," there are few who concede any other tribute to the Creator. And yet the saving principles of the world are rooted in Christ, implanted in him; the Truth by which men live is the Truth as taught and lived by Jesus.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Helen Olney
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Topic: Novelty
Author: Blaise Pascal
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
Topic: Hope
Author: Bible
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
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
Topic: Laziness
Author: Grenville Kleiser
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Jim Fox