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June 30, 2008

Success Sayings & Quotes

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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. - Joseph Heller

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. - Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

 

June 30, 2008

Understanding Sayings & Quotes

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It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. - Pope John Paul II

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. - George Soros

 

June 30, 2008

Business Sayings & Quotes

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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. - Bertie Charles Forbes

My life and death are not purely and simply my own business. I live by and for others, and my death involves others. - Thomas Merton

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. - Isak Dinesen

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. - Alexander Pope

 

June 30, 2008

Clever Sayings & Quotes

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory. - Benjamin Disraeli

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

June 30, 2008

Life Sayings & Quotes

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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Pierre de Coubertin

Every good citizen makes his country’s honour his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. - Andrew Jackson

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The tension between ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ between ‘I can’ and ‘I cannot,’ makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one’s self. - Anatole Broyard

 

April 13, 2008

inspirational away messages by Arthur Schopenhauer

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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~inspirational away messages by Arthur Schopenhauer

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
~away messages by Saul Alinsky

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it
~sayings about away messages by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice - their choice.
~quotes about Attitude by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
~inspirational away messages by Harlan Miller

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete
~saying on Books by Robert M. Hamilton

Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?
~inspirational away messages by Elayne Boosler

 

March 27, 2008

saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

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There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it
 ~saying on Baby by Irena Chalmers

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
 ~easter motivational quote by Joy Hargrove

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
 ~easter by Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage

That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.
 ~sayings about easter by Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
 ~quotes about Music by Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
 ~easter motivational quote by Lord Dewar

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
 ~saying on Grandparents by Fanny Fern

 

March 27, 2008

quotes about Marriage by Friedrich Nietzsche

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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
 ~quotes about Marriage by Friedrich Nietzsche

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren’t so crazy about the first time around.
 ~athletic motivational quote by Author Unknown

You have to have the kind of body that doesn’t need a girdle in order to get to pose in one.
 ~saying on Clothing by Carolyn Kenmore

A big tree attracts the gale.
 ~athletic motivational quote by Chinese

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
 ~athletic by Robert S. Wieder

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
 ~sayings about athletic by Leo Buscaglia

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
 ~quotes about Teenagers by Raymond Duncan

 

March 20, 2008

saying on Life by Elwyn Brooks White

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
 ~saying on Life by Elwyn Brooks White

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
 ~catholic inspirational messages by George Bernard Shaw

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
 ~catholic messages by

Cut your losses and let your profits run
 ~sayings about catholic messages by Proverb

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
 ~quotes about Censorship by Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959

There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
 ~catholic inspirational messages by Josh Billings

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
 ~saying on Goodbye by Lazurus Long

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
 ~catholic inspirational messages by G.K. Chesterton

 

March 19, 2008

saying on Hugs by Jacques Prévert

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Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.
 ~saying on Hugs by Jacques Prévert

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
 ~famous presidential quote by Henry Ford

I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.
 ~presidential by Mike Morley

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
 ~sayings about presidential by Joshua L. Liebman

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
 ~quotes about Environment by Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
 ~famous presidential quote by Felix Cohen

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid when they are told they are loved
 ~saying on Luck by Unknown

 

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