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I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".
Author: Tom Fatjo
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Topic: Love
In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.
Topic: England
You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
Topic: Soccer
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.
Topic: Life
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Topic: Happiness
Author: Anonymous
Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.
Author: Isaac Newton
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Author: Boake Carter
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Topic: Knowledge
Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.
Topic: Shipwreck
Author: Lord Byron
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Topic: Courage
Author: Omar Bradley
The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
Topic: Countries
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
Author: Ernst Mayr
Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.
Topic: Meditation
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Topic: Evil
Author: Bible
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Be united--united--united.
Topic: Unity
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!
Topic: Age
Author: Lord Byron
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Topic: Thought