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June 30, 2008

Understanding Sayings & Quotes

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

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 2, 2008

Personality Sayings & Quotes

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. - Lloyd Douglas

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man’s civilization is built upon his surplus. In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habits, we are economical in our expression, for then our soul-consciousness is at its low level, it has just volume enough to guide on in accustomed grooves. But when our heart is fully awakened in love, or in other great emotions, our personality is in its flood-tide. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. - Fran Lebowitz

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. - Erich Fromm

May 20, 2008

Sting~Nice Attitude Sayings

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you have to be yourself. be very honest about who and what you are. if people still like you thats fine. if they dont thats their problem.
~Author : Sting~Nice Attitude Sayings

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
~Author : Jonathan Swift~meaningful Genius Quotes

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
~Author : Sigmund Freud~Nice Love Quotes Sayings

Success is heavy burden, but not as heavy as failure.
~Author : ~meaningful Success Quotes

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Missing You Sayings

Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
~Author : Ogden Nash~meaningful Civilization Quotes

A good friend is cheaper than therapy.
~Author : Author Unknown~Nice Friendship Sayings

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Author : Mason Cooley~meaningful Travel Quotes

May 3, 2008

famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

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If four or five guys tell you that you’re drunk, even though you know you haven’t had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while
~famous quotes on change by Joseph Schenck

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~change by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
~sayings about change by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down
~quotes about Party Invitations by Phyllis Diller

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~famous quotes on change by Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~saying on Teachers by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

May 3, 2008

famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

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If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~famous quotes on change by Anonymous Teacher

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~change by Mother Teresa

No man can follow Christ and go astray.
~sayings about change by William H.P. Faunce

I’m not against half naked girls - not as often as I’d like to be.
~quotes about Women by Benny Hill

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~famous quotes on change by Lauren Raffo

A grownup is a child with layers on.
~saying on Inner Child by Woody Harrelson

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.
~famous quotes on change by Author Unknown

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

quotes about Opportunities by John F. Kennedy

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When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~quotes about Opportunities by John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~easter motivational quote by John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
~saying on Life by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul
~easter motivational quote by Edith Wharton

My strength is made perfect in weakness
~easter by II Corinthians

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
~sayings about easter by Mark Twain

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~quotes about Love by Eva Gabor

March 27, 2008

athletic motivational quote by Dudley Field Malone

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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
~athletic motivational quote by Dudley Field Malone

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~saying on Wise Words by Plato

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken
~athletic motivational quote by William Stafford

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
~athletic by Abigail Van Buren

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
~sayings about athletic by Frank Swinnerton

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart
~quotes about Cool by Unknown

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again…. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
~athletic motivational quote by Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, 1969

March 20, 2008

saying on Justice by Edgar Argo

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Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
~saying on Justice by Edgar Argo

Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man.
~catholic inspirational messages by Emily Dickinson

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.
~catholic messages by Author Unknown

As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.
~sayings about catholic messages by Toto

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?
~quotes about Perspective by Bertrand Russell

No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet
~catholic inspirational messages by Author Unknown

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
~saying on Confidence by Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
~catholic inspirational messages by Winston Churchill

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