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[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding the formation of a just idea of the beauty ...
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.
They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.
The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.
It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling ...
It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go ...
This little thing" making a triangle between the three-"ain't gonna fly
I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what ...
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
Investing in foreign aid would also help achieve China's strategic objectives, since aid could become a powerful tool in the expansaion of China's influence.
READ and BELIEVE or you will be left behind!
The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he ...
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle ...
It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.
I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas ...
Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's ...
The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is ...
When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
When my ma went off a old woman called Aunt Emmaline kep' me. (She kep' all de orphunt chillun an' dem who's mammas had been ...
Rich men in hell are a dime a dozen.
Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can ...
Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.
You have so many relationship-worthy qualities. Either the guys around here are complete idiots or you've never shown them the real you.
If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn't achieved his full potential.
You can't photograph if you're not in love.
Writers who learn to leave holes in manuscripts to be filled later master valuable skills in writing: they learn to proceed amid ambiguity and uncertainty
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
You don't have to compromise to be recognized.
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
After orbiting the moon, mundane business problems did not faze him.
If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of ...
Don't wake up one day and wonder where your life has gone. Make your dreams come true.
I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. ...
Transform Pain Into Gain
Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.
We blow the past a kiss, our last blush of artifice as performers before this Future we're flirting with becomes terribly and totally Real. And ...
If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the sunset and leave ...
Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share ...
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have ...
I wonder if The Lesson is that, in order to succeed, I need to rely upon myself, trust myself, love myself, and not put my ...
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.