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Fear always springs from ignorance.
Topic: Fear
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
Topic: Hair
Author: James Brown
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Topic: Truth
A father said to his son, "When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by the light of the fireplace."The son replied, "When Lincoln was your age, he was President.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.
Topic: Toasts
Author: Philostratus
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Topic: Golf
Author: Bobby Jones
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
Topic: Life
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Topic: Defeat
Author: Gandhi
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Topic: Hunger
Hunger that persuades to evil.
Topic: Hunger
If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Author: Sylvia Plath
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Author: Dan Quayle
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
Topic: Kisses
Author: George Eliot
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Topic: Fools
Author: George Eliot
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.
Author: Tom Hopkins
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Topic: Charity
Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait; Nor forget the twain who found you Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.
Topic: Sleep
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.