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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

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 25, 2008

Clever Sayings & Quotes

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A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw

 

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 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

sayings about life by Confucius

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~sayings about away messages by Confucius

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadowIf you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulderIf you want a hug, I’ll be your pillowIf you need to be happy, I’ll be your smileBut anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me
~quotes about For a Friend by Author Unknown

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~inspirational away messages by Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the peopleOf course, that is not trueDecisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing
~saying on Election Day by Walter H. Judd

The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~inspirational away messages by Pablo Casals

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
~away messages by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
~sayings about away messages by John Lennon

 

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

 

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