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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.
Topic: Truth
Author: Winston Churchill
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.
Topic: Choice
Author: Victor Frank
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out-because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Wayne Dyer
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: James Allen
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
Topic: Illusion
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).
Topic: Christianity
Author: William Law
His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in the radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
Topic: Talk
Author: Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Topic: Music
Author: Leonard Bernstein
30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling. That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the name for those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitation of captive expendable lab animals?
Topic: Abuse
Author: O Anna Niemus
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Zadoc Rabinowitz
If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.
Topic: Business
Author: Will Rogers
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Topic: Romance
Author: Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Topic: Folly
Author: Bible
Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Charles F Banning
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."
Topic: Arithmetic
Author: Charles Dickens
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith