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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Author: Dr Seuss
winning isn't every thing, it's the only thing.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.
Topic: Judgment
Author: John Milton
Since I have smashed my denominational glasses, I have a better vision of who Christ is.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Animis opibusque parati
Topic: Mottoes
Author: Motto
The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.
Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From the ice roof depending; and beneath, Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.
Topic: Winter
Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Topic: Love
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
Topic: Winter
Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi.
Topic: Epitaphs
Author: Epitaph
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.
Topic: Liberty
Make haste slowly.
Topic: Haste
We're all here 'cause we're not all there.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.
Author: Norman Allen
The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
Topic: Youth
Author: Ben Bergor
Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit; And look you get a prayer book in your hand And stand between two churchmen, good my lord, For on that ground I'll make a holy descant; And be not easily won to our requests.
Topic: Worship
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Topic: Paradoxes